SwiftUI - PresentationButton with modal that is full screen

Question

I am trying to implement a button that presents another scene with a \"Slide from Botton\" animation.

PresentationButton looked like a good candidate, so I gave it

Answer 1

Although my other answer is currently correct, people probably want to be able to do this now. We can use the Environment to pass a view controller to children. Gist here

struct ViewControllerHolder {
    weak var value: UIViewController?
}


struct ViewControllerKey: EnvironmentKey {
    static var defaultValue: ViewControllerHolder { return ViewControllerHolder(value: UIApplication.shared.windows.first?.rootViewController ) }
}

extension EnvironmentValues {
    var viewController: UIViewControllerHolder {
        get { return self[ViewControllerKey.self] }
        set { self[ViewControllerKey.self] = newValue }
    }
}

Add an extension to UIViewController

extension UIViewController {
    func present(style: UIModalPresentationStyle = .automatic, @ViewBuilder builder: () -> Content) {
        // Must instantiate HostingController with some sort of view...
        let toPresent = UIHostingController(rootView: AnyView(EmptyView()))
        toPresent.modalPresentationStyle = style
        // ... but then we can reset rootView to include the environment
        toPresent.rootView = AnyView(
            builder()
                .environment(\.viewController, ViewControllerHolder(value: toPresent))
        )
        self.present(toPresent, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

And whenever we need it, use it:

struct MyView: View {

    @Environment(\.viewController) private var viewControllerHolder: ViewControllerHolder
    private var viewController: UIViewController? {
        self.viewControllerHolder.value
    }

    var body: some View {
        Button(action: {
           self.viewController?.present(style: .fullScreen) {
              MyView()
           }
        }) {
           Text("Present me!")
        }
    }
}

[EDIT] Although it would be preferable to do something like @Environment(\.viewController) var viewController: UIViewController? this leads to a retain cycle. Therefore, you need to use the holder.