Fully updated for Xcode 11.2
If you need several views to act as one – for example, to transition together – then you should use SwiftUI’s Group
view. This is particularly important because, for underlying technical reasons, you can only add up to 10 views to a parent view at a time.
To demonstrate this, here’s a VStack
with 10 pieces of text:
VStack {
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
}
That works just fine, but if you try adding an eleventh piece of text, you’ll get an error like this one:
ambiguous reference to member 'buildBlock()'
…perhaps followed by a long list of errors like this:
SwiftUI.ViewBuilder:3:24: note: found this candidate
public static func buildBlock<C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9>(_ c0: C0, _ c1: C1, _ c2: C2, _ c3: C3, _ c4: C4, _ c5: C5, _ c6: C6, _ c7: C7, _ c8: C8, _ c9: C9) -> TupleView<(C0, C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, C7, C8, C9)> where C0 : View, C1 : View, C2 : View, C3 : View, C4 : View, C5 : View, C6 : View, C7 : View, C8 : View, C9 : View
This is because SwiftUI’s view building system has various code designed to let us add 1 view, 2 views, 3 views, or 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 views, but not for 11 and beyond – that doesn’t work.
Fortunately, we can use a group like this:
var body: some View {
VStack {
Group {
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
}
Group {
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
Text("Line")
}
}
}
That creates exactly the same result, except now we can go beyond the 10 view limit because the VStack
contains only two views – two groups.
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