SwiftUI: spacing
In the last SwiftUI tutorial I mentioned how views can be arranged using stacks:
VStack {
Text("Hello World")
Text("Hello again!")
}
Let’s talk about spacing.
See how there’s no space between the two Text
views? That’s because it’s the default behavior of VStack
.
VStack
accepts a spacing
parameter:
VStack(spacing: 100) {
Text("Hello World")
Text("Hello again!")
}
This puts a 100 points space between the views contained in the VStack
.
You can also use a Spacer
view:
VStack {
Text("Hello World")
Spacer()
Text("Hello again!")
}
Spacer
fills all the available space as it can:
You can limit it to a specific set of points using the frame()
modifier:
VStack {
Text("Hello World")
Spacer()
.frame(height: 20)
Text("Hello again!")
}
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