Autofocus TextField programmatically in SwiftUI

Question

I'm using a modal to add names to a list. When the modal is shown, I want to focus the TextField automatically, like this:

I've not found any suitable solutions yet.

Is there anything implemented into SwiftUI already in order to do this?

Thanks for your help.

var modal: some View {
        NavigationView{
            VStack{
                HStack{
                    Spacer()
                    TextField("Name", text: $inputText) // autofocus this!
                        .textFieldStyle(DefaultTextFieldStyle())
                        .padding()
                        .font(.system(size: 25))
                        // something like .focus() ??
                    Spacer()
                }
                Button(action: {
                    if self.inputText != ""{
                        self.players.append(Player(name: self.inputText))
                        self.inputText = ""
                        self.isModal = false
                    }
                }, label: {
                    HStack{
                        Text("Add \(inputText)")
                        Image(systemName: "plus")
                    }
                        .font(.system(size: 20))
                })
                    .padding()
                    .foregroundColor(.white)
                    .background(Color.blue)
                    .cornerRadius(10)
                Spacer()
            }
                .navigationBarTitle("New Player")
                .navigationBarItems(trailing: Button(action: {self.isModal=false}, label: {Text("Cancel").font(.system(size: 20))}))
                .padding()
        }
    }

Answer 1

Since Responder Chain is not presented to be consumed via SwiftUI, so we have to consume it using UIViewRepresentable. I have made a workaround that can work similarly to the way we use to do using UIKit.

 struct CustomTextField: UIViewRepresentable {

   class Coordinator: NSObject, UITextFieldDelegate {

      @Binding var text: String
      @Binding var nextResponder : Bool?
      @Binding var isResponder : Bool?


      init(text: Binding<String>,nextResponder : Binding<Bool?> , isResponder : Binding<Bool?>) {
        _text = text
        _isResponder = isResponder
        _nextResponder = nextResponder
      }

      func textFieldDidChangeSelection(_ textField: UITextField) {
        text = textField.text ?? ""
      }

      func textFieldDidBeginEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
         DispatchQueue.main.async {
             self.isResponder = true
         }
      }

      func textFieldDidEndEditing(_ textField: UITextField) {
         DispatchQueue.main.async {
             self.isResponder = false
             if self.nextResponder != nil {
                 self.nextResponder = true
             }
         }
      }
  }

  @Binding var text: String
  @Binding var nextResponder : Bool?
  @Binding var isResponder : Bool?

  var isSecured : Bool = false
  var keyboard : UIKeyboardType

  func makeUIView(context: UIViewRepresentableContext<CustomTextField>) -> UITextField {
      let textField = UITextField(frame: .zero)
      textField.isSecureTextEntry = isSecured
      textField.autocapitalizationType = .none
      textField.autocorrectionType = .no
      textField.keyboardType = keyboard
      textField.delegate = context.coordinator
      return textField
  }

  func makeCoordinator() -> CustomTextField.Coordinator {
      return Coordinator(text: $text, nextResponder: $nextResponder, isResponder: $isResponder)
  }

  func updateUIView(_ uiView: UITextField, context: UIViewRepresentableContext<CustomTextField>) {
       uiView.text = text
       if isResponder ?? false {
           uiView.becomeFirstResponder()
       }
  }

}

You can use this component like this...

struct ContentView : View {

@State private var usernmae =  ""
@State private var password =  ""

// set true , if you want to focus it initially, and set false if you want to focus it by tapping on it.
@State private var isUsernameFirstResponder : Bool? = true
@State private var isPasswordFirstResponder : Bool? =  false


  var body : some View {
    VStack(alignment: .center) {

        CustomTextField(text: $usernmae,
                        nextResponder: $isPasswordFirstResponder,
                        isResponder: $isUsernameFirstResponder,
                        isSecured: false,
                        keyboard: .default)

        // assigning the next responder to nil , as this will be last textfield on the view.
        CustomTextField(text: $password,
                        nextResponder: .constant(nil),
                        isResponder: $isPasswordFirstResponder,
                        isSecured: true,
                        keyboard: .default)
    }
    .padding(.horizontal, 50)
  }
}

Here isResponder is to assigning responder to the current textfield, and nextResponder is to make the first response , as the current textfield resigns it.