Getting a “This application is modifying the autolayout engine from a background thread” error?

Question

Been encountering this error a lot in my OS X using swift:

\"This application is modifying the autolayout engine from a background thread, which can

Answer 1

You already have the correct code answer from @Mark but, just to share my findings: The issue is that you are requesting a change in the view and assuming that it will happen instantly. In reality, the loading of a view depends on the available resources. If everything loads quickly enough and there are no delays then you don't notice anything. In scenarios, where there is any delay due to the process thread being busy etc, the application runs into a situation where it is supposed to display something even though its not ready yet. Hence, it is advisable to dispatch these requests in a asynchronous queues so, they get executed based on the load.