SwiftUI - Navigation title background becomes transparent when VStack is visible - swiftui

Question

I'm running into an issue with the navigation title header in SwiftUI. It's a combination of a couple of things, as far as I can tell...
The main problem is that I'm trying to change the default background color of a view that contains a list. But when I use the tag .background(), the navigation title background becomes transparent. This only happens when there is a VStack on the view.
I have a simplify example code that shows the problem I'm facing:
ContentView:
import SwiftUI
struct ContentView: View {
#State var showButton: Bool
var body: some View {
VStack {
NavigationStack {
NavigationLink(
destination: SecondView(showButton: showButton),
label: {
Text("Take me to second view")
})
Toggle("VStack Visibile", isOn: $showButton)
.padding()
}
}
}
}
SecondView:
import SwiftUI
struct SecondView: View {
#State private var isButtonVisible: Bool = false
#State var showButton: Bool = true
var body: some View {
VStack {
List(0..<10) { _ in
Text("Hello World")
}
if showButton {
button
}
}
.navigationTitle("This is a title")
.background(Color(.systemCyan))
}
var button: some View {
Text("Something")
}
}
Please see below the resulting problem:

Answer 1

Issues / Suggestions:
ContentView
Have the NavigationStack outside the VStack
SecondView
Don't embed List inside a VStack
List is special and has special characteristics
Don't initialise #State property from outside, pass a binding instead
Code:
ContentView:
struct ContentView: View {
#State var showButton = true
var body: some View {
NavigationStack {
VStack {
NavigationLink(
destination: SecondView(showButton: $showButton),
label: {
Text("Take me to second view")
})
Toggle("VStack Visibile", isOn: $showButton)
.padding()
}
}
}
}
SecondView
struct SecondView: View {
#State private var isButtonVisible: Bool = false
#Binding var showButton: Bool
var body: some View {
List {
ForEach(0..<100) { _ in
Text("Hello World")
}
}
.safeAreaInset(edge: .bottom) {
if showButton {
HStack {
Spacer()
button
Spacer()
}
//I have added transparency, you can make it opaque if you want
.background(.cyan.opacity(0.8))
}
}
}
var button: some View {
Text("Something")
}
}

Answer 2

Try this if you don't want your list go under nav bar.
struct SecondView: View {
#State private var isButtonVisible: Bool = false
#State var showButton: Bool = true
var body: some View {
VStack {
List(0..<10) { _ in
Text("Hello World")
}
.padding(.top, 1)
if showButton {
button
}
}
.background(Color(.systemCyan))
.navigationTitle("This is a title")
}
var button: some View {
Text("Something")
}
}