In the following code, I'm trying to animate an Image above all other views. What I want is basically to animate the purple circle image above Bottom View but when I tap the purple image and the animation starts, the rest of the views move along with the animated image.

How can I animate a view above all other views without affecting other views' position?

View

    struct ContentView: View {
        @State private var isAnimating = false
        var body: some View {
            ZStack{
                VStack{
                    HStack{
                        Text("TOP View")
                    }
                    .frame(maxWidth: .infinity)
                    .padding()
                    .background(Color.blue)
                    .padding(.top)

                    HStack{
                        Image(systemName: "target")
                            .font(.largeTitle)
                            .foregroundColor(.red)
                        Spacer()
                    }
                    .padding(.vertical)

                    HStack{
                        Text("BOTTOM View")
                    }
                    .frame(maxWidth: .infinity)
                    .padding()
                    .background(Color.blue)

                    Image(systemName: "circle.fill")
                        .font(.system(size: 65))
                        .foregroundColor(.purple)
                        .throwAnimation(isAnimating: $isAnimating)
                        .onTapGesture {
                            isAnimating.toggle()
                        }
                        .zIndex(100)
                }
            }
        }
    }

Animation

    struct ThrowAnimationWrapper<Content: View>: UIViewRepresentable{
        @ViewBuilder let content: () -> Content
        @Binding var isAnimating: Bool
        func makeUIView(context: Context) -> UIView {
            UIHostingController(rootView: content()).view
        }
        func updateUIView(_ uiView: UIView, context: Context) {
            if isAnimating{

                uiView.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: 1.0, y: 1.0);// start at full scale

                let startPoint = CGPoint(x: 250, y: 500)
                let apexPoint = CGPoint(x: 100 + 50, y: 50 - 200)
                let endPoint = CGPoint(x: 50, y: 350)
                let durationTime = 0.8

                let path = UIBezierPath()
                path.move(to: startPoint)
                path.addQuadCurve(to: endPoint, controlPoint: apexPoint)

                CATransaction.begin() // to be able to capture the beggining of the animation
                CATransaction.setCompletionBlock({
                    print("Animation completed!")
                })
                let animation = CAKeyframeAnimation(keyPath: "position")
                animation.path = path.cgPath
                animation.duration = durationTime
                uiView.layer.add(animation, forKey: "bezier")
                uiView.center = endPoint

                UIView.animate(withDuration: durationTime, animations: {
                    uiView.transform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: 0.5, y: 0.5);
                })

                CATransaction.commit() // to be able to capture the end of the animation
            }
        }
    }

    extension View {
        func throwAnimation( isAnimating: Binding<Bool>) -> some View {
            modifier(ThrowAnimationViewModifier(isAnimating: isAnimating))
        }
    }
    struct ThrowAnimationViewModifier: ViewModifier {
        @Binding var isAnimating: Bool
        func body(content: Content) -> some View {
            ThrowAnimationWrapper(content: {
                content
            }, isAnimating: $isAnimating)
        }
    }

struct ContentView_Previews: PreviewProvider {
    static var previews: some View {
        ContentView()
    }
}

Image

Oh shoot, something so simple, you're my hero. Thank you for the extra improvements; I had to move the isAnimating = false inside the setCompletionBlock since I was getting a purple warning, good point to set it to false after the animation is done.

Quick question, how hard would it be to make the endPoint location dynamic? In other words, reference other views' x and y locaiton as the endPoint, for when in bigger/smaller screens.

Thanks a LOT!

Well as far as bigger/smaller screens i tried it with the iPad simulator and it was still hitting the target, the starting point on the other hand was moving around depending on the screen size to fix it just add this line

let startPoint = CGPoint(x: uiView.frame.width / 2, y: uiView.frame.height / 2)

now if you add or remove views thats another problem, maybe you can try to get the targets position using a geometry reader but im not sure how to do it.

You're right, the target is hit regardless of screen size, wow, I didn't try that until now. Thanks a lot for your help, it really helped a lot!