Changing the color of a button in SwiftUI based on disabled or not

I guess you want this:

You can add a computed property for the button color, and pass the property to the button’s foregroundColor modifier. You can also use a single padding modifier around the HStack instead of separate paddings on its subviews.

struct ContentView : View {
    @State var chatMessage: String = ""

    var body: some View {
        HStack {
            TextField($chatMessage, placeholder: Text("Reply"))
                .textFieldStyle(.roundedBorder)
            Button(action: sendMessage) {
                Image(systemName: "arrow.up.circle")
                    .foregroundColor(buttonColor)
            }
                .disabled(!chatMessageIsValid)
        }
            .padding([.leading, .trailing], 10)
    }

    var chatMessageIsValid: Bool {
        return !chatMessage.isEmpty
    }

    var buttonColor: Color {
        return chatMessageIsValid ? .accentColor : .gray
    }

    func sendMessage() {
        chatMessage = ""
    }
}

However, you shouldn’t use the foregroundColor modifier at all here. You should use the accentColor modifier. Using accentColor has two benefits:

• The Image will automatically use the environment’s accentColor when the Button is enabled, and gray when the Button is disabled. You don’t have to compute the color at all.

• You can set the accentColor in the environment high up in your View hierarchy, and it will trickle down to all descendants. This makes it easy to set a uniform accent color for your whole interface.

In the following example, I put the accentColor modifier on the HStack. In a real app, you would probably set it on the root view of your entire app:

struct ContentView : View {
    @State var chatMessage: String = ""

    var body: some View {
        HStack {
            TextField($chatMessage, placeholder: Text("Reply"))
                .textFieldStyle(.roundedBorder)
            Button(action: sendMessage) {
                Image(systemName: "arrow.up.circle")
            }
                .disabled(!chatMessageIsValid)
        }
            .padding([.leading, .trailing], 10)
            .accentColor(.orange)
    }

    var chatMessageIsValid: Bool {
        return !chatMessage.isEmpty
    }

    func sendMessage() {
        chatMessage = ""
    }
}

Also, Matt’s idea of extracting the send button into its own type is probably smart. It makes it easy to do nifty things like animating it when the user clicks it:

Here’s the code:

struct ContentView : View {
    @State var chatMessage: String = ""

    var body: some View {
        HStack {
            TextField($chatMessage, placeholder: Text("Reply"))
                .textFieldStyle(.roundedBorder)
            SendButton(action: sendMessage, isDisabled: chatMessage.isEmpty)
        }
            .padding([.leading, .trailing], 10)
            .accentColor(.orange)
    }

    func sendMessage() {
        chatMessage = ""
    }
}

struct SendButton: View {
    let action: () -> ()
    let isDisabled: Bool

    var body: some View {
            Button(action: {
                withAnimation {
                    self.action()
                    self.clickCount += 1
                }
            }) {
                Image(systemName: "arrow.up.circle")
                    .rotationEffect(.radians(2 * Double.pi * clickCount))
                    .animation(.basic(curve: .easeOut))
            }
                .disabled(isDisabled)
    }

    @State private var clickCount: Double = 0
}