UIKit Relative Frame Understanding

Ali Akhtar
3 min readApr 15, 2022

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Orange View

In Figure 1 as you can see Orange View constraint from top 37 , height = 400 , leading and trailing = 0

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In Figure 4 you will see the globalFrame which is distance of that view with window if specify nil , so for orange view there is no logic at all , since orange view is same frame with parent and window.

For figure 3 you can understand midX , minX and maxX, middle of that view with parent or global frame which is window same from minX and maxX

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Green View

In Figure 5 as you can see Green View constraint

topToSuperView → topToOrangeView → 16

bottomToBlueView → 16

height → 100

leading and trailing to superView → leading and trailing to orangeView → 16

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Figure 6, 7 you can observe

frame from parent it gives the value

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For global frame you can see , just consider window as parent and neglect orange view so from window x = 16 , y = 128 + 16 = 144 is the only difference since for x perceptive parent view act as window but for y things change

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Red View

16 points to parent which is green view from everywhere 4 side simple

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Green View as parent Normal Flow

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Global Frame (Window as parent View)

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White View

16 points to parent which is red view from everywhere 4 sides simple

Red View as parent Normal Flow

Window as parent

Now this is very important White View with Parent GreenView instead of RedView , note we are only getting frame in respect to GreenView we are not changing parent view

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Ali Akhtar
Ali Akhtar

Written by Ali Akhtar

Senior iOS Engineer | HungerStation | Delivery Hero

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