Autolayout Fun
Episode
#35
|
13 minutes
| published on
09/27/2012
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In this episode I dive into the complex world of auto layout. Autolayout is an important and powerful new layout system in iOS 6, but it definitely takes some practice to understand fully. Even after practicing this episode a few times I ran into a couple of snags, however I hope this intro to Autolayout provides useful.
Episode Links
- Episode Sample Code (Pizza Palace)
- Beginning Autolayout (Ray Wenderlich) Part 1| Part 2 - I found these articles to be the best written resource so far.
WWDC Videos on Autolayout
These videos are immensely helpful. If you have a developer account, then I highly recommend you watch all three videos.
- WWDC 2012: Introduction to Auto Layout for iOS and OS X
- WWDC 2012: Auto Layout by Example
- WWDC 2012: Best Practices for Mastering Auto Layout
Tips for Autolayout
- Be careful about resizing views manually. Sometimes it can add additional constraint that you did not intend.
- Watch the debugger window to auto layout errors. You certainly want to resolve these before shipping, otherwise you may have unintended layouts
- Use ⌘= to size a view to its intrinsic size. Use this for
UIButtons,UILabels, andUIImageViewsto automatically size to their contents.