
Shapes are usually a good example, such as Rectangle(). Views that will grow to fill all the space offered (but not a pixel more).However vertically, at least one line of text will be shown, irrespective of how small the frame might be. Text views are a mixed example: If not enough horizontal space is available they will either truncate or wrap the text. And if what they’ve been offered is not enough to draw all the contents, they will do their best to respect the offered space. Views that will take only what they need.Views that will only take as much space as needed to fit their own content.I found that we can group views by the way they react to the offered space: But in the sake of clarity, I’ll discard those names and just describe the behaviors: That was not my intention, I just wanted to provide a fun mental picture to easily remember them. It has been brought to my attention, that using these terms may lead the reader to assume that some of these types might be undesirable. In a previous version of this article, I used to classify views in 4 categories that I named: generous, well-behaved, selfish, and badly-behaved. The methods we’ll explore in this post are.

For example, some extend to occupy the whole frame, others won’t. We will see later that different views may have different ways of behaving. The frame may or may not have an effect on the size of its child. They are an emergent property of the view and its parents. These bounds are not directly manipulable. It is that wrapper view that we must think of as the “frame”.Īnd although views do not have frames (at least not in the UIKit/AppKit sense), they do have bounds. Most of the time, when we apply a modifier on a view, a new view is created that is wrapped around the view being “modified”. Modifiers in SwiftUI do not actually modify views. There’s a lot going on when we use modifiers (such as. We will see the term “frame” being used quite often, but defining it, is one of the most challenging tasks with SwiftUI. We’ll explore that in detail, and we will replicate some of those behaviors in our own custom views. If you wonder how come some views like to grow, others like to shrink, and some just don’t care… you’re in the right place.
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A while later, I realized that I wasn’t using its full potential, so I decided to revisit it.

frame(width:height:alignment), and then moved to other (more interesting) things. When I started using SwiftUI, one of the first modifiers I learned was. It has some interesting behaviors and options that we will explore in this article. If you follow my blog, you’ve probably noticed that I try to post only advanced SwiftUI techniques.

I know it may seem like a boring and simple topic.
