How to disable NavigationView push and pop animations - swiftui

Question

Given this simple NavigationView:
struct ContentView : View {
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
VStack {
NavigationLink("Push Me", destination: Text("PUSHED VIEW"))
}
}
}
}
Did anyone find a way of disabling the NavigationView animation when a destination view is pushed/popped into/from the stack?
This has been possible in UIKit since iOS2.0! I think it is not too much to ask from the framework. I tried all sorts of modifiers on all views (i.e., the NavigationView container, the destination view, the NavigationLink, etc)
These are some of the modifiers I tried:
.animation(nil)
.transition(.identity)
.transaction { t in t.disablesAnimations = true }
.transaction { t in t.animation = nil }
None made a difference. I did not find anything useful in the EnvironmentValues either :-(
Am I missing something very obvious, or is the functionality just not there yet?

Answer 1

Xcode 11.3:
Right now there is no modifier to disable NavigationView animations.
You can use your struct init() to disable animations, as below:
struct ContentView : View {
init(){
UINavigationBar.setAnimationsEnabled(false)
}
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
VStack {
NavigationLink("Push Me", destination: Text("PUSHED VIEW"))
}
}
}
}

Answer 2

First you need state for the NavigationLink to respond to, then set that state inside a transaction with animations disabled, as follows:
struct ContentView : View {
#State var isActive = false
var body: some View {
NavigationView {
VStack {
NavigationLink(isActive: $isActive, destination: {
Text("PUSHED VIEW")}) {
Text("Push Me")
}
Button("Navigate Without Animation") {
var transaction = Transaction()
transaction.disablesAnimations = true
withTransaction(transaction) {
isActive = true
}
}
}
}
}
}

Answer 3

I recently created an open source project called swiftui-navigation-stack (https://github.com/biobeats/swiftui-navigation-stack) that contains the NavigationStackView, a view that mimics the navigation behaviours of the standard NavigationView adding some useful features. For example, you could use the NavigationStackView and disable the transition animations as requested by Kontiki in the question. When you create the NavigationStackView just specify .none as transitionType:
struct ContentView : View {
var body: some View {
NavigationStackView(transitionType: .none) {
ZStack {
Color.yellow.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
PushView(destination: View2()) {
Text("PUSH")
}
}
}
}
}
struct View2: View {
var body: some View {
ZStack {
Color.green.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
PopView {
Text("POP")
}
}
}
}
PushView and PopView are two views that allow you push and pop views (similar to the SwiftUI NavigationLink). Here is the complete example:
import SwiftUI
import NavigationStack
struct ContentView : View {
var body: some View {
NavigationStackView(transitionType: .none) {
ZStack {
Color.yellow.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
PushView(destination: View2()) {
Text("PUSH")
}
}
}
}
}
struct View2: View {
var body: some View {
ZStack {
Color.green.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
PopView {
Text("POP")
}
}
}
}
struct ContentView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
static var previews: some View {
ContentView()
}
}
The result is:
It would be great if you guys joined me in improving this open source project.