Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes

• June 25, 2015

  Practical Auto Layout: Are You Ready for iOS 9?

  Apple messed up big time. They wanted a simple, powerful but flexible system to lay out buttons, labels, images and other objects on the storyboard. They wanted a way to make only one layout and have it work on any iOS device in any orientation. They created Auto Layout and Size classes. Then they messed […]
• May 3, 2015

  Swift Swift: Making Background Images, Small Images and Custom UIViews with Autolayout

  For those who have worked a bit with auto layout, there are two topics that seems to be a real challenge: using a custom UIView, especially when using Core Graphics , and displaying photos  either in the foreground or as a background. Both suffer from similar problems. When changing device or changing orientations they are […]
• April 9, 2015

  Swift Swift: View Controllers Now Available for iBooks

  It was hard to tell if the cheers of joy or cries of fear were louder when Swift was announced, the next generation programming language to provide rapid development and more error free code than its predecessor Objective-C. There is nothing to fear. Grabbing the best from many different languages Swift makes for a completely […]
• January 27, 2015

  Tab Bar Controllers in Storyboards

  [Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9 9/21/15 SJL] While Navigation controllers often have the limelight when it comes to Xcode controllers, Tab Bar controllers are great for independent tasks in the same app or for different ways of working with the same model. In this lesson, we’ll take a look at tab bar controllers and how to […]
• January 22, 2015

  Swift Swift Tutorials: Calculator Style buttons in an Auto Layout Xib

  Some people want calculator-type buttons. It would be nice to have such buttons for say, an order entry app. In this lesson we’ll put together a set of buttons to make a layout for an order entry system. Along the way I’ll show how to use a Xib as a modal view in Swift. This […]
• January 14, 2015

  Solving Conflicting Constraints in Auto Layout

  In the Auto Layout and Size Class video series, we came up with a generic layout. We made a different layout for iPhones in landscape and then another for iPads. However the preview in iPhone 6 plus in landscape is not working. In the last video we solved the problem quickly. In this post I’d […]
• January 8, 2015

  Basic Auto Layout: A Practical View for Beginners

  Note: When I originally posted the Basic Auto Layout video on YouTube, I recorded it live and did not make a script I could post underneath it. This post makes the same UI as the video, but with a few differences in depth of material and process to illustrate how to handle autolayout errors and […]
• December 19, 2014

  Auto Layout and Size Classes: The Regular Size and Lining up Buttons Evenly

  In the conclusion of our series on auto layout, we’ll discuss the regular size for iPads and one side of the iPhone 6 plus. We’ll make a line of evenly spaced buttons using auto layout, first for the iPad, then again for the iPhone 6 plus in landscape with its odd regular width, compact height […]
• December 11, 2014

  Swift Swift: Using UIScrollView with Autolayout

  Last week we talked about cameras, one thing I’d like in my camera app is the ability to take a picture then zoom and scroll around the photo. For that, we need to use the UIScrollview. UIScrollView is a very flexible and important control in UIKit. It is the basis for many the controls we […]