Uncover of two itemized list at a same frame

Question

I have an item list in a tcolorbox here in the beamer.

\begin{tcolorbox}[title=item list 1]
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
           \item 1a
           \item 1b
           \item 1c
    \end{itemize}
\end{tcolorbox}

The items 1a, 1b, 1c in item list 1 is shown one by one.

Suppose I want another item list on the same frame in a tcolorbox replacing the previous one after uncovering all the items in list 1. The second list is also uncovered one item by one item.

\begin{tcolorbox}[title=item list 2]
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
           \item 2a
           \item 2b
           \item 2c
    \end{itemize}
\end{tcolorbox}

I know I can use environment like \only<n> to control the sequence, but that means I have to manually label every item in list 1 and 2 with \item<n>. This becomes really time-consuming when the two lists are long (and for my case, the list contains nesting). Is there any way to treat the item list as a whole when specifying the number in \only<n>. For example,

\begin{frame}{Two lists}


\only<1>{
% first list, expecting the items display one by one
% second list doesn't appear before the first list completely shown
\begin{tcolorbox}[title=item list 2]
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
           \item 2a
           \item 2b
           \item 2c
    \end{itemize}
\end{tcolorbox}
}

\only<2>{
% second list, expecting the items display one by one
\begin{tcolorbox}[title=item list 2]
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
           \item 2a
           \item 2b
           \item 2c
    \end{itemize}
\end{tcolorbox}
}
\end{frame}

Currently, when I use this the code above, beamer would only show the first item in list 1 and the first 2 item in list 2. I understand that it treats the 1 and 2 in \only<n> as the number of items in both item lists.

Any idea to implement this without manually counting each item and labelling it?

Answer 1

Instead of just 1 or 2 you could specify a range of overlays on which each tcolorbox should be visible. You can for example say <-3> to indicate that the first tcolorbox should be present on all overlays including the 3rd, and <4-> for the second tcolorbox to be present on all overlays starting from the 4th.

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{tcolorbox}

\begin{document}
    
\begin{frame}{Two lists}

\begin{onlyenv}<-3>
  \begin{tcolorbox}[title=item list 1]
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
           \item 1a
           \item 1b
           \item 1c
    \end{itemize}
  \end{tcolorbox}
\end{onlyenv}

\begin{onlyenv}<4->
  \begin{tcolorbox}[title=item list 2]
    \begin{itemize}[<+->]
           \item 2a
           \item 2b
           \item 2c
    \end{itemize}
  \end{tcolorbox}
\end{onlyenv}

\end{frame}

    
\end{document}