Multi-Component Picker (UIPickerView) in SwiftUI

Frank Schmitt picture Frank Schmitt · Jun 12, 2019 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

I'm trying to add a three-component Picker (UIPickerView) to a SwiftUI app (in a traditional UIKit app, the data source would return 3 from the numberOfComponents method), but I can't find an example of this anywhere.

I've tried adding an HStack of three single-component Pickers, but the perspective is off from what it would be if they were all part of a single Picker.

Answer

Matteo Pacini picture Matteo Pacini · Jun 12, 2019

Updated answer in pure SwiftUI- in this example the data is of type String.

Tested on Xcode 11.1 - may not work on previous versions.

struct MultiPicker: View  {

    typealias Label = String
    typealias Entry = String

    let data: [ (Label, [Entry]) ]
    @Binding var selection: [Entry]

    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometry in
            HStack {
                ForEach(0..<self.data.count) { column in
                    Picker(self.data[column].0, selection: self.$selection[column]) {
                        ForEach(0..<self.data[column].1.count) { row in
                            Text(verbatim: self.data[column].1[row])
                            .tag(self.data[column].1[row])
                        }
                    }
                    .pickerStyle(WheelPickerStyle())
                    .frame(width: geometry.size.width / CGFloat(self.data.count), height: geometry.size.height)
                    .clipped()
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Demo:

struct ContentView: View {

    @State var data: [(String, [String])] = [
        ("One", Array(0...10).map { "\($0)" }),
        ("Two", Array(20...40).map { "\($0)" }),
        ("Three", Array(100...200).map { "\($0)" })
    ]
    @State var selection: [String] = [0, 20, 100].map { "\($0)" }

    var body: some View {
        VStack(alignment: .center) {
            Text(verbatim: "Selection: \(selection)")
            MultiPicker(data: data, selection: $selection).frame(height: 300)
        }
    }

}

Result:

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