UIStackView dynamcially add 2 labels next to each other with no extra spacing

Question

Im new to iOS development and Im a bit confused as to how to achieve this.

I have 2 UILabels added to a UIStackView like so:

let horizontalStackView1 = UIStackView(arrangedSubviews: [self.label1, self.label2])

and when I run the app it looks like this:

However, Id like the labels to be next to each other with no spacing in between something like this:

Ive tried setting horizontalStackView1.distribution, horizontalStackView1.alignment etc with no luck.

How do I achieve this?

Thanks in advance!

UPDATE:

The code looks like this (its a cell of a table by the way):

class ItemTableViewCell: UITableViewCell
{
    ...
    let stateLabel = UILabel()
    let effectiveDateLabel = UILabel()
    ...

    var typeImage: UIImage?
    {
        ...
    }

    var summary: String?
    {
        ...
    }

    var effectiveDate: Date?
    {
        ...
    }

    override init(style: UITableViewCellStyle, reuseIdentifier: String?)
    {
        super.init(style: style, reuseIdentifier: reuseIdentifier)
        self.accessoryType = .disclosureIndicator
        ...
        let horizontalStackView1 = UIStackView(arrangedSubviews: [self.stateLabel, self.effectiveDateLabel])
        let horizontalStackView2 = UIStackView(arrangedSubviews: [typeImageViewWrapper, self.titleLabel])
        horizontalStackView2.spacing = 4
        let verticalStackView = UIStackView(arrangedSubviews: [horizontalStackView1, horizontalStackView2, self.summaryLabel])
        verticalStackView.axis = .vertical
        verticalStackView.spacing = 4
        self.contentView.addSubview(verticalStackView)
        ...
    }

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder)
    {
        fatalError()
    }
}

Answer 1

That's because the UIStackView picks the first arrangedSubview with lowest content hugging priority and resizes it so the stackview's content takes up full width.

If you want to use UIStackView for this case, you can should change the content hugging priorities, eg.

label2.setContentHuggingPriority(.defaultLow, for: .horizontal)
label1.setContentHuggingPriority(.defaultHigh, for: .horizontal)