Hiding Home Indicator Issues

[LePips]

An app that I am contributing to has a video player that must have the home indicator hidden. It was working before but implementing Stinsen has broken it. It is done in SwiftUI and we use this somewhat popular workaround.

I have provided the sample project: https://github.com/LePips/StinsenHideBar2

I ask that the project is checked out. This project has a view A that presents a view B. B should have the home indicator hidden. I am currently attempting to hide the home indicator on every view that I possibly can, even through customize(). I currently find it weird that only view A has the home indicator hidden.

If I could get some help that would be great but I understand issues can't be addressed ad hoc. Or, if I should be doing something else with Stinsen, guidance would be helpful.

Thanks!

[rundfunk47]

Hi! Always exciting to see projects using Stinsen 👍🏽 Are we sure this is a Stinsen issue? For instance

@main
struct TestApp: App {
    var body: some Scene {
        WindowGroup {
            EmptyView()
                .withHostingWindow { window in
                    window?.rootViewController = PreferenceUIHostingController(wrappedView: ContentView())
                }
        }
    }
}

// Just a view to navigate to the emulated video player view
struct ContentView: View {
    @State var active: Bool = false

    var body: some View {
        Button {
            active = true
        } label: {
            Text("Present BlackView")
        }
        .prefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden(true) // Hides the home indicator
        .fullScreenCover(
            isPresented: $active,
            onDismiss: nil,
            content: { BlackView() }
        )
    }
}

// Emulates a video player view, should have home indicator hidden
struct BlackView: View {
    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            Color.black.ignoresSafeArea()
        }
        .prefersHomeIndicatorAutoHidden(true) // Doesn't hide home indicator
    }
}

seems to trigger this issue as well. This is essentially what Stinsen uses under the hood to present the full screen modal.

I might be doing something wrong, though, with the home button hiding code

[LePips]

Thank you for the prompt response and showing how this works under the hood. I had just thought that it was a problem arising from Stinsen but now after running your example that it may be a limitation of SwiftUI. I'll have to look back at how we did it before (I think it was just a NavigationLink) and possible just have to redo how we route/root to this specific screen. Having it as a root option on our MainCoordinator also fixes the issue, but also has some weird results. Thanks!

[rundfunk47]

Glad to be of help! Perhaps using the swizzling-method would solve your issue? I often use it myself when needing to change the underlying UIKit-components in SwiftUI.

Thanks! 😊