A Flow Layout is a container that orders its views sequentially, breaking into a new "line" according to the available width of the screen. You can compare it to a left-aligned block of text, where every word is a View. A common use for this layout is to create a tag cloud.

The end result looks like this:

• The layout algorithm behaves differently if your FlowLayout is nested in a VStack or a scrollable parent, such as ScrollView or a List. Therefore, there's the Mode enum and mode property.

This component is distrubuted as a Swift package. Just add this URL to your package list:

https://github.com/globulus/swiftui-flow-layout

You can also use CocoaPods:

pod 'SwiftUIFlowLayout', '~> 1.0.4'

import SwiftUIFlowLayout

struct FlowLayout_Previews: PreviewProvider {
  static var previews: some View {
    FlowLayout(mode: .scrollable,
               items: ["Some long item here", "And then some longer one",
                       "Short", "Items", "Here", "And", "A", "Few", "More", 
                       "And then a very very very long one"],
               itemSpacing: 4) {
      Text($0)
        .font(.system(size: 12))
        .foregroundColor(.black)
        .padding()
        .background(RoundedRectangle(cornerRadius: 4)
                               .border(Color.gray)
                               .foregroundColor(Color.gray))
    }.padding()
  }
}

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• 1.0.5 - Using preferences key to read view height.
• 1.0.4 - Fixed crash when changing item count.
• 1.0.3 - Removed Hashable constraint on data. Added convenience initializer when refresh binding isn't used.
• 1.0.2 - Fixed layout issues with multiline items.
• 1.0.1 - Added itemSpacing parameter.
• 1.0.0 - Initial release.