SwiftUI — Using Frames To Align
Learn to use the Frame Modifier to align you views
3 min readJan 27, 2023
Frame is one of the most widely used modifier in SwiftUI. Almost every time that I’ve seen it in code is used to give a view a specific size. Anyway .frame can be used in a very clever way to align out content.
The Basic
Let’s make an example. Let’s say that we would like to aling a text on the leading edge of the screen. I’ve seen a lot of people use the next approach:
It surely works but it is a bit overkill since you are creating three views.
The elegant and cleaner way that I suggest is the one using the frame modifier:
With the alignment parameter we can decide the alignment style of our text, or our content. Just add .leading or .trailing and…
