ios - Transition animation not working in SwiftUI

Question

I'm trying to create a really simple transition animation that shows/hides a message in the center of the screen by tapping on a button:

struct ContentView: View {
    @State private var showMessage = false

    var body: some View {
        ZStack {
            Color.yellow

            VStack {
                Spacer()
                Button(action: {
                    withAnimation(.easeOut(duration: 3)) {
                        self.showMessage.toggle()
                    }
                }) {
                    Text("SHOW MESSAGE")
                }
            }

            if showMessage {
                Text("HELLO WORLD!")
                    .transition(.opacity)
            }
        }
    }
}

According to the documentation of the .transition(.opacity) animation

A transition from transparent to opaque on insertion, and from opaque to transparent on removal.

the message should fade in when the showMessage state property becomes true and fade out when it becomes false. This is not true in my case. The message shows up with a fade animation, but it hides with no animation at all. Any ideas?

EDIT: See the result in the gif below taken from the simulator.

Answer 1

The problem is that when views come and go in a ZStack, their "zIndex" doesn't stay the same. What is happening is that the when "showMessage" goes from true to false, the VStack with the "Hello World" text is put at the bottom of the stack and the yellow color is immediately drawn over top of it. It is actually fading out but it's doing so behind the yellow color so you can't see it.

To fix it you need to explicitly specify the "zIndex" for each view in the stack so they always stay the same - like so:

struct ContentView: View {
@State private var showMessage = false

var body: some View {
    ZStack {
        Color.yellow.zIndex(0)

        VStack {
            Spacer()
            Button(action: {
                withAnimation(.easeOut(duration: 3)) {
                    self.showMessage.toggle()
                }
            }) {
                Text("SHOW MESSAGE")
            }
        }.zIndex(1)

        if showMessage {
            Text("HELLO WORLD!")
                .transition(.opacity)
                .zIndex(2)
        }
    }
}

}