How can I use edgesIgnoringSafeArea in SwiftUI, but make a child view respect the safe area?

Question

I'm building a UI is SwiftUI with a list view, and I want to put a panel over part of the list view with a button on it.

On devices with a safe area at the bottom (that don't have a physical home button) I want the panel to go to the bottom of the screen. But I want to make sure that the button on the panel doesn't extend into the safe area.

In my example code, the HStack is the panel that contains the button. I tried adding .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.bottom) to it, but that doesn't allow it to extend to the bottom. This is kind of confusing to me, because the List that's in the same ZStack extends into the bottom safe area.

When I add .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.bottom) to the ZStack , the HStack (blue panel) is allowed to extend into the safe area at the bottom of the screen. This is what I want, but then once I do that, how can I tell the Button that's a child of the HStack to not ignore the safe area?

I know how I would do this in UIKit, but I'm really hoping to be able to build this UI in SwiftUI. I could manually add some padding or Spacers to add extra padding under the Button to account for the safe area, but then there would be extra spacing on devices with a home button that don't have a bottom safe area. I'd like to figure out an elegant solution where I can rely on the system to define its safe areas instead of manually defining any spacing numerically or creating conditional situations for different devices.

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {

        ZStack(alignment: .bottom) {

                    List {
                        Text("Item 1")
                        Text("Item 2")
                        Text("Item 3")
                    }

                    HStack {
                        Spacer()
                        Button(action: {
                            // do something
                        }){
                            Text("Button")
                                .font(.title)
                                .padding()
                                .background(Color.green)
                                .foregroundColor(.white)
                                .cornerRadius(15)
                        }.padding()
                        Spacer()
                    }.background(Color.blue).edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.bottom)
                }
    }
}

Answer 1

Whatever view you draw in the background modifier will use the frame of the view it's modifying. So you need to tell THAT view to ignore the safe area.

.background(Color.blue.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.bottom))

Answer 2

You can access the height of the safe area using a GeometryReader. Then you could use the height of the safe area as bottom padding or offset on your button.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/geometryproxy

struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {

        GeometryReader { proxy in
            ZStack(alignment: .bottom) {

                List {
                    Text("Item 1")
                    Text("Item 2")
                    Text("Item 3")
                }

                HStack {
                    Spacer()
                    Button(action: {
                        // do something
                    }){
                        Text("Button")
                            .font(.title)
                            .padding()
                            .background(Color.green)
                            .foregroundColor(.white)
                            .cornerRadius(15)
                    }
                    .padding(.bottom, proxy.safeAreaInsets.top)
                    Spacer()
                }.background(Color.blue)
            }.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.bottom)
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

Adding on to @Joe Susnick's answer, the full code is:

VStack {

}.frame(maxWidth: .infinity, maxHeight: .infinity)
.background(Color(red: 0.357, green: 0.784, blue: 0.016, opacity: 0.5).ignoresSafeArea()
)

Anything inside of VStack respects the safe area whereas the background fills the whole screen.

Answer 4

edgesIgnoringSafeArea(_:) is Deprecated

use the following:

.background(Color.blue.ignoresSafeArea(edges: .bottom))