How to center align 2 UIViews inside a container (UIView), without placing them inside a UIView

Question

Center align (horizontal and vertically) 2 UIViews inside a container (UIView), without placing them inside a UIView. I know it can be done by placing them inside a UIView or UIStackView.

But how can we do it directly ??

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Answer 1

Everyone is making things complicated...

The easiest solution :

• Add Center Horizontal constraint for all the view
• Add Top constraint for View2 wrt. View1.
• Add Center Vertical constraint to View1, with constant as -(Height of View1 + Height of View2 + spacing between them)/2.

Thanks 🙏 to the interviewer only 😉.