AutoLayout - Fresh Beginning

AutoLayout

A collection of 9 posts

Using Autolayout to Dynamically Resize UILabel

We all love Autolayout, don't we? I had a less than ideal experience with it when I started. However, after continuous practice and reading a Book - iOS Auto Layout Demystified I got more comfortable with it. However, there are certain cases where it's still possible to solve problem with

Using UIScrollView with Autolayout on Xcode using Swift

Note : This post is based on Using UIScrollView with Auto Layout in iOS published on Atomic Object blog. TL; DR; The code to support UIScrollView with autolayout is open-sourced and hosted on Github. The wrapper can be found here and example on how to use it is listed here Recently

Autolayout to size views on different devices

Recently I ran into a not so interesting auto layout problem. I wanted to show a view which would stretch to the full width of iPhone with fixed padding like this However, I also wanted to display the same view on iPad. But not stretching to the full device width.

iOS - Autolayout and Resizing UILabel (iOS/Swift)

Last week I had weird issue while applying autolayout rules to UITableViewCell. TableViewCell has two components attached to it. 1. An UIImageView 2. Two variable length UILabels stacked vertically on the top of each other And I wanted tableView cells to look like this, Nice, isn't it? Let's look at

Debugging Autolayout issues in the Xcode

With the release of new iPhone devices in addition to older models iPhone4 and iPhone5, developers are forced to switch to autolayout instead of using manual frames to update the view layouts. As we extensively use autolayout, goof-ups are very much likely to happen. I always miss something or add

Swizzling UIView initializer with Autolayout

If you are a fan of autolayout and using it extensively, you can feel the pain of writing self.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = NO; every time UIView is initialized. This is awkward to use when I try to init UIView with following initializer, UIView* v = [[UIView alloc] init]; It is implicit that I

Autolayout Tricks - Part 3

Thank you for following this series of Autolayout tricks so far. Similar to previous posts, these tricks are also based on the ideas mentioned in iOS - Autolayout Mystified) by Erica Sadun Today I am going to talk about another autolayout trick. How to arrange view in stacks. In short,

Autolayout Tricks - Part 2

Create nested views structure with Autolayout. (Based on the idea and implementation based on iOS - Autolayout Demystified) While going through Erica Sadun's above mentioned book, I came across interesting problem on how to arrange nested views into each other making beautiful structure. It was quite a challenge for me

Autolayout Tricks - Part 1

Height adjusting UILabel with autolayout in iOS. We all know that UILabels have intrinsic content size which allows them to adjust their height based on the content size. Which means you can add UILabel to your views, set numberOfLines to zero, set appropriate height constraint and see in action that