ios - Make a VStack fill the width of the screen in SwiftUI

Question

Given this code:

import SwiftUI

struct ContentView: View {
  var body: some View {
    VStack(alignment: .leading) {
      Text("Title")
        .font(.title)

      Text("Content")
        .lineLimit(nil)
        .font(.body)

      Spacer()
    }
    .background(Color.red)
  }
}

#if DEBUG
struct ContentView_Previews : PreviewProvider {
  static var previews: some View {
    ContentView()
  }
}
#endif

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It results in this interface:

How can I make the VStack fill the width of the screen even if the labels/text components don't need the full width?

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A trick I've found is to insert an empty HStack in the structure like so:

VStack(alignment: .leading) {
  HStack {
    Spacer()
  }
  Text("Title")
    .font(.title)

  Text("Content")
    .lineLimit(nil)
    .font(.body)

  Spacer()
}

Which yields the desired design:

Is there a better way?

Answer 1

Try using the .frame modifier with the following options:

.frame(
      minWidth: 0,
      maxWidth: .infinity,
      minHeight: 0,
      maxHeight: .infinity,
      alignment: .topLeading
    )

struct ContentView: View {
  var body: some View {
    VStack(alignment: .leading) {
      Text("Hello World")
        .font(.title)
      Text("Another")
        .font(.body)
      Spacer()
    }
    .frame(
      minWidth: 0,
      maxWidth: .infinity,
      minHeight: 0,
      maxHeight: .infinity,
      alignment: .topLeading
    )
    .background(Color.red)
  }
}

This is described as being a flexible frame (see the documentation), which will stretch to fill the whole screen, and when it has extra space it will center its contents inside of it.