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What is a view’s intrinsic content size?

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Ace the iOS Interview
Ace the iOS Interview
Aryaman Sharda
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All UIViews have an .intrinsicContentSize property that specifies the amount of space the UIView needs to show its content in an ideal manner.

If you've ever used UITableView.automaticDimension,this is deferring to the UITableViewCell's intrinsic content size to figure out the appropriate height for the cell.

As another example, if you had a UILabel with a customfont and word wrapping enabled, the intrinsic content size would be the size needed to show all of the text without any truncation.