How to push onto an existing UINavigationController stack from SwiftUI? - swift

Question

We're pushing to a SwiftUI view embedded in a UIHostingViewController in UIKit land like this:
First making the UIViewController:
func hostingController() -> UIViewController {
let swiftUIView = swiftUIView(viewModel: viewModel(data: [Data, Data, Data]))
return UIHostingController(rootView: swiftUIView)
}
Then pushing it onto the UINavigationView stack:
[self.navigationController pushViewController:hostingViewController animated:YES];
This gets us to SwiftUI's environment. But, if our SwiftUI environment has it's own navigation stack with NavigationView and NavigationLink, the original navigationBar's back button can only navigate back to the original presenting UIViewController.
Is there a way to push a SwiftUI view embedded in a NavigationView onto an existing UINavigationController stack?
The only thought we've had so far is creating a new UIHostingViewController for each new SwiftUI screen, and pushing that onto the stack via some kind of delegate method.
What we're looking for is something like this:
UINavigationStack: [UIViewController -> UIViewController -> SwiftUIView -> SwiftUIView]
Where the back < arrow in the navigationBar will behave as expected.
Please let us know if we can clarify further!

Answer 1

I had a similar problem - I added a SwiftUI view with NavigationView to a UIKit NavigationController which lead to two layers of navigation bars when continuing navigation in the SwiftUI View: UIKit NavigationController -> MyListNavigationView(MyListView) -> DetailView.
Adding SwiftUI view to UIKit NavigationController:
let swiftUIView = MyListNavigationView(content: contentList)
let hostingViewController = UIHostingController(rootView: swiftUIView)
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(hostingViewController, animated: true)
My simplified SwiftUI views (did not validate if it compiles after simplifications):
struct MyListNavigationView: View {
#State var content: [String]
var body: some View {
NavigationView { //replace with Group {
MyListView(content: $content)
.toolbar {
ToolbarItem(placement: .navigationBarTrailing) {
NavigationLink {
DetailView(data: "New Data")
} label: {
Image(systemName: "plus")
}
}
}
}
.navigationViewStyle(.stack)
.navigationTitle("My Title")
}
}
struct MyListView: View {
#Binding var content: [String]
var body: some View {
List(content, id: \.self) { data in
NavigationLink(destination: DetailsView(data: data) {
MyRow(data: data)
}
}
}
}
struct MyRow: View {
let data: String
var body: some View {
Text(data)
}
}
struct DetailView: View {
let data: String
var body: some View {
Text(data)
}
}
So with that setup I had 2 layers of navigation bars - and with a simple change it all worked out for me:
As I only added MyListNavigationView to a UIKit NavigationController, I did not need a standalone SwiftUI NavigationView and just replaced it with a Group - and all navigation/toolbar settings from my SwiftUI views have been adopted by the parent UIKit NavigationController and there was only one navigation bar.