How to get the actual view rendered size and position in SwiftUI?

Question

The question is how to get the actual viewed rendered size and position in a parent view? In other word, how to get the actual Text("Foo") size in the SwiftUI code below?

GeometryReader can be used to get the parent proposed size and safe area inset via safeAreaInsets and these information is defined inside GeometryProxy. You can see from the screenshot below, the proposed size to VStack is 300 width and 300 height and the actual size for the VStack is unknown.

struct FooView: View {
    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometryProxy in
            VStack {
                Text("\(geometryProxy.size.height), \(geometryProxy.size.width)")
                Text("Foo")
            }
            .background(Color.green)
        }
        .frame(width: 300, height: 300)
        .background(Color.blue)
    }
}

Answer 1

Actual Rendered Size

The workaround is to get the actual rendered size via .background modifier with an nested GeometryReader. The size information inside the new geometry proxy can then be stored in a temporary @State variable defined in the View.

struct FooSizePreferenceKey: PreferenceKey {
    static let defaultValue = CGSize.zero
    static func reduce(value: inout CGSize, nextValue: () -> CGSize) {
        value = nextValue()
    }
}

struct FooView: View {
    @State private var fooSize: CGSize = .zero

    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometryProxy in
            VStack {
                Text("\(self.fooSize.height), \(self.fooSize.width)")
                Text("Foo")
                    .background(
                        GeometryReader { fooProxy in
                            Color
                                .green
                                .preference(key: FooSizePreferenceKey.self,
                                            value: fooProxy.size)
                                .onPreferenceChange(FooSizePreferenceKey.self) { size in
                                    self.fooSize = size
                            }
                        }
                    )
            }
        }
        .frame(width: 300, height: 300)
        .background(Color.blue)
    }
}

Actual Rendered Position

The actual rendered position for the view can be calculated using Anchor and anchorPreference. Using the anchor and the parent geometryProxy, we can easily get the position .bound information of the target view.

struct FooAnchorData: Equatable {
    var anchor: Anchor<CGRect>? = nil
    static func == (lhs: FooAnchorData, rhs: FooAnchorData) -> Bool {
        return false
    }
}

struct FooAnchorPreferenceKey: PreferenceKey {
    static let defaultValue = FooAnchorData()
    static func reduce(value: inout FooAnchorData, nextValue: () -> FooAnchorData) {
        value.anchor = nextValue().anchor ?? value.anchor
    }
}

struct FooView: View {
    @State private var foo: CGPoint = .zero

    var body: some View {
        GeometryReader { geometryProxy in
            VStack {
                Text("\(self.foo.x), \(self.foo.y)")
                Text("Foo")
                    .background(
                        GeometryReader { fooProxy in
                            Color
                                .green
                                .anchorPreference(key: FooAnchorPreferenceKey.self,
                                                  value: .bounds,
                                                  transform: {FooAnchorData(anchor: $0) })
                                .onPreferenceChange(FooAnchorPreferenceKey.self) { data in
                                    self.foo = geometryProxy[data.anchor!].origin
                            }
                        }
                    )
            }
        }
        .frame(width: 300, height: 300)
        .background(Color.blue)
    }
}