SwiftUI views for widgets

Overview

Widgets can use many, but not all, SwiftUI views to present content. Use the views listed below to implement your widget’s view.

Topics

Displaying text

• Displaying dynamic dates in widgets
• Text

Showing images

• Image

Adding interaction

• Adding interactivity to widgets and Live Activities
• Button
• Toggle

Adding labels and links

• Label
• Link

Stacking views

• HStack
• VStack
• ZStack
• LazyHStack
• LazyVStack

Arranging views in grids

• LazyHGrid
• LazyVGrid
• GridItem

Enumerating lists

• ForEach

Grouping views

• Group
• GroupBox
• Section

Representing hierarchies

• OutlineGroup

Adding spacers and dividers

• Spacer
• Divider

Handling conditional views

• EmptyView
• EquatableView

Displaying shapes

• Rectangle
• RoundedRectangle
• Circle
• Ellipse
• Capsule
• Path

Transforming views

• ScaledShape
• RotatedShape
• OffsetShape
• TransformedShape
• ContainerRelativeShape

Styling views

• Color
• ImagePaint
• Gradient
• LinearGradient
• AngularGradient
• RadialGradient
• ForegroundStyle
• FillStyle
• BackgroundStyle
• SelectionShapeStyle
• SeparatorShapeStyle
• StrokeStyle

Creating 2D graphics

• Canvas

Managing view geometry

• GeometryProxy
• GeometryReader
• ProjectionTransform

Substituting views

• AnyView
• TupleView

See Also

Presentation

• Creating views for widgets, Live Activities, and watch complications