How to show NavigationLink as a button in SwiftUI

You don’t need to wrap your view inside the NavigationLink to make it trigger the navigation when pressed.

We can bind a property with our NavigationLink and whenever we change that property our navigation will trigger irrespective of what action is performed. For example:

struct SwiftUI: View {
    @State private var action: Int? = 0
    
    var body: some View {
        
        NavigationView {
            VStack {
                NavigationLink(destination: Text("Destination_1"), tag: 1, selection: $action) {
                    EmptyView()
                }
                NavigationLink(destination: Text("Destination_2"), tag: 2, selection: $action) {
                    EmptyView()
                }
                
                Text("Your Custom View 1")
                    .onTapGesture {
                        //perform some tasks if needed before opening Destination view
                        self.action = 1
                    }
                Text("Your Custom View 2")
                    .onTapGesture {
                        //perform some tasks if needed before opening Destination view
                        self.action = 2
                    }
            }
        }
    }
}

Whenever you change the value of your Bindable property (i.e. action) NavigationLink will compare the pre-defined value of its tag with the binded property action, if both are equal navigation takes place.

Hence you can create your views any way you want and can trigger navigation from any view regardless of any action, just play with the property binded with NavigationLink.

Thanks, hope it helps.