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ScrollView

A SwiftUI ScrollView component for scrollable content.

iOS

tvOS

Included in Expo Go

GitHub

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Changelog

For cross-platform usage, see the universal ScrollView — it renders the appropriate native component per platform.

Expo UI ScrollView matches the official SwiftUI ScrollView API and provides a scrollable container for its children.

Installation

Terminal

- npx expo install @expo/ui

If you are installing this in an existing React Native app, make sure to install expo in your project.

Usage

Basic vertical scroll view

A simple vertically scrollable list of text items.

ScrollViewVerticalExample.tsx

import { Host, ScrollView, VStack, Text } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui';
import { padding } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui/modifiers';

export default function ScrollViewVerticalExample() {
  return (
    <Host style={{ flex: 1 }}>
      <ScrollView>
        <VStack spacing={8}>
          {Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => (
            <Text key={i} modifiers={[padding({ horizontal: 16 })]}>
              {`Item ${i + 1}`}
            </Text>
          ))}
        </VStack>
      </ScrollView>
    </Host>
  );
}

Horizontal scroll view

Use the axes prop to scroll horizontally.

ScrollViewHorizontalExample.tsx

import { Host, ScrollView, HStack, RoundedRectangle } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui';
import { frame, foregroundStyle } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui/modifiers';

export default function ScrollViewHorizontalExample() {
  return (
    <Host style={{ flex: 1 }}>
      <ScrollView axes="horizontal">
        <HStack spacing={8}>
          {Array.from({ length: 20 }, (_, i) => (
            <RoundedRectangle
              key={i}
              cornerRadius={12}
              modifiers={[
                frame({ width: 100, height: 100 }),
                foregroundStyle(`hsl(${i * 18}, 70%, 50%)`),
              ]}
            />
          ))}
        </HStack>
      </ScrollView>
    </Host>
  );
}

Hidden scroll indicators

Set showsIndicators to false to hide the scroll bars.

ScrollViewHiddenIndicatorsExample.tsx

import { Host, ScrollView, VStack, Text } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui';

export default function ScrollViewHiddenIndicatorsExample() {
  return (
    <Host style={{ flex: 1 }}>
      <ScrollView showsIndicators={false}>
        <VStack spacing={8}>
          {Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => (
            <Text key={i}>{`Item ${i + 1}`}</Text>
          ))}
        </VStack>
      </ScrollView>
    </Host>
  );
}

Shared scroll position

Requires iOS 17 or later. On older versions, the modifier is a no-op.

Track the leading scroll target id from JavaScript and scroll to a target by writing to the state. Mark each scroll target with the id modifier, wrap the content container in scrollTargetLayout, and apply the scrollPosition modifier to the ScrollView. The optional onChange callback fires on the JS thread when the leading target changes.

The scrollPosition modifier also works on other scrollable containers like LazyVStack and LazyHStack.

Writes to state.value must run on the UI runtime. Wrap the write in scheduleOnUI from react-native-worklets, or call them from inside a 'worklet' function. Writes from the JS runtime trip Main Thread Checker, Xcode's runtime tool that flags UIKit calls made from a background thread.

ScrollViewSharedPositionExample.tsx

import { Button, Host, ScrollView, Text, VStack, useNativeState } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui';
import { id, padding, scrollPosition, scrollTargetLayout } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui/modifiers';
import { scheduleOnUI } from 'react-native-worklets';

export default function ScrollViewSharedPositionExample() {
  const activeID = useNativeState<string | null>(null);

  return (
    <Host style={{ flex: 1 }}>
      <VStack spacing={12}>
        <ScrollView
          modifiers={[
            scrollPosition(activeID, {
              onChange: newID => {
                console.log('[JS thread] leading target:', newID);
              },
            }),
          ]}>
          <VStack modifiers={[scrollTargetLayout()]}>
            {Array.from({ length: 30 }, (_, i) => (
              <Text
                key={`item-${i}`}
                modifiers={[id(`item-${i}`), padding({ horizontal: 16, vertical: 12 })]}>
                {`Item ${i}`}
              </Text>
            ))}
          </VStack>
        </ScrollView>
        <Button
          label="Scroll to item 10 from worklet"
          onPress={() => {
            scheduleOnUI(() => {
              'worklet';
              activeID.value = 'item-10';
            });
          }}
        />
      </VStack>
    </Host>
  );
}

API

import { ScrollView } from '@expo/ui/swift-ui';

Component

`ScrollView`

iOS

tvOS

Type: React.Element<ScrollViewProps>

SwiftUI ScrollView wrapper. To control scroll position, pair this with the scrollPosition(state, { onChange }) modifier and a useNativeState-backed id. Write state.value = targetId for an instant scroll, or wrap the write in withAnimation(...) from @expo/ui/swift-ui for an animated one.

ScrollViewProps

`axes`

iOS

tvOS

Optional • Literal type: string • Default: 'vertical'

The scrollable axes. Pass 'both' to enable 2D (horizontal + vertical) scrolling.

Acceptable values are: 'vertical' | 'horizontal' | 'both'

`children`

iOS

tvOS

Type: React.ReactNode

`showsIndicators`

iOS

tvOS

Optional • Type: boolean • Default: true

Whether to show scroll indicators. For richer visibility control (e.g. 'never') or per-axis control, use the scrollIndicators(...) modifier instead.

Inherited Props

CommonViewModifierProps

Types

`ScrollGeometry`

iOS

tvOS

Snapshot of a ScrollView's scroll geometry, emitted by the useScrollGeometryChange(...) and onScrollPhaseChange(...) modifiers (iOS 18+).

Property	Type	Description
containerHeight	`number`	Height of the visible scroll container, in points.
containerWidth	`number`	Width of the visible scroll container, in points.
contentHeight	`number`	Total height of the scrollable content, in points.
contentOffsetX	`number`	Horizontal content offset, in points.
contentOffsetY	`number`	Vertical content offset, in points.
contentWidth	`number`	Total width of the scrollable content, in points.

`ScrollPhase`

iOS

tvOS

Literal Type: string

Scroll phase emitted by the onScrollPhaseChange(...) modifier. Mirrors SwiftUI's ScrollPhase (iOS 18+).

Acceptable values are: 'idle' | 'tracking' | 'interacting' | 'animating' | 'decelerating'