Change UIView background color in SwiftUI

Question

Hello everyone. I'm creating a simple iOS app with SwiftUI, and I'd like to change my view's background color to a custom one I have.

This is something extremely easy to do but it seems that it's impossible to achieve in SwiftUI without using ZStacks or workarounds like that, which if you use a List, for example, don't work.

I want to change the color of the view, not use a ZStack with a custom color and then put the rest of the views on top of it. I tried using UIView.appearance().backgroundColor = color when initializing my view, but then all the view is hidden and the screen is filled with the color chosen.

As I'm not good at explaining, here you have some images describing the problem:

Without color change

With color change

My code

import SwiftUI

struct TabController: View {
    @State private var selection = 0

    init() {
        UIView.appearance().backgroundColor = UIColor(named: "backgroundColor")
    }

    var body: some View {
        TabView(selection: $selection) {
            HomePageView()
                .tabItem {
                    Image(systemName: "house.fill")
                        .font(.title)
                }
                .tag(0)

            Text("Second View")
                .font(.title)
                .tabItem {
                    Image(systemName: "bell.fill")
                        .font(.title)
                }
                .tag(1)
        }.edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.top)
    }
}

Answer 1

Hope this will help to understand:

var body: some View {
    Color.purple
        .overlay(
            VStack(spacing: 20) {
                Text("Overlay").font(.largeTitle)
                Text("Example").font(.title).foregroundColor(.white)
        })
        .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.vertical)
}

Another If you use the views in Group

var body: some View {
        Group {
          Text("Hello SwiftUI!")
        }
       .background(Color.black)
    }

Answer 2

For changing the background color, I think the current method most people, and myself, are using is using a ZStack. I haven't seen many problems with putting a UIViewRepresentable on top of it.

var body: some View {
    ZStack {
        Color.blue
            .edgesIgnoringSafeArea(.all)
        VStack {
          Text("Hello World!")
        }
    }
}