Tag: autolayout
Posted on December 12, 2018
by Steven Lipton
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You’ve probably seen menus that pop out of the side of an app, but do you know how to make one? With the knowledge of some simple code you too can add these to your application using auto layout. If you take a look… Continue Reading “Add an Animated Drawer”
Category: GUI, iOS Development Weekly Tips, LinkedIn Learning / Lynda.com, TutorialTags: animated drawer, animation, App Programming, Apple swift, Auto Layout, autolayout, GUI, ios, Options, swift, Tutorial, UI
Posted on October 31, 2018
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Note:You can find a video of this tip here on LinkedIn Learning If there’s one thing in auto layout that drives me nuts it is laying out for landscape different than portrait on an iPad. Phones are easy since the class sizes are different… Continue Reading “Layout iPad Landscape and Multitasking Apps”
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, GUI, ios12, LinkedIn Learning / Lynda.com, Swift Programming, Tutorial, Xcode 10Tags: autolayout, autolayout programmatically, ios, iPad, landscape, layout, observers, portrait, property observers, rotation, swift
Posted on November 29, 2016
by Steven Lipton
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A tech author’s work is never done. As soon as he or she completes manuscript and gets it published, the manuscript almost immediately becomes obsolete. In my case, Practical Autolayout for Xcode 8 went obsolete a day before I published, but I had no idea about… Continue Reading “Where is Update Frames in Xcode 8.1?”
Category: Swift ProgrammingTags: ambiguous, Auto Layout, autolayout, button, content hugging, frames, misalignment, missing, resolver, update, Xcode 8
Posted on July 6, 2016
by Steven Lipton
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In this lesson, we’ll take a look at tab bar controllers and how to add them in the storyboard. For more on implementing them completely in code see Swift Swift: Using Tab Bar Controllers in Swift. For more on data sharing once set up… Continue Reading “Tab Bar Controllers in Xcode 8 Storyboards”
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, ios8, Swift Programming, Swift Swift, TutorialTags: autolayout, iPhone Programming, more, swift programming, Tab bar, tab bar icon color, Tab Bar Icons, Tab bar items, Tab bar more, Xcode, xibs in swift
Posted on November 11, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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Some people don’t like Interface Builder and like to code instead. Sometimes your layout is so dynamic you need to lay out in code. In either case, programmatic layout of views becomes the answer instead of auto layout. In Xcode 7 Apple introduced stack… Continue Reading “How to Add Stack Views Programmatically and (almost) avoid AutoLayout”
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, GUI, iOS9, Swift, Swift Programming, Swift Swift, TutorialTags: Auto Layout, autolayout, stack view, swift, UIStackView
Posted on April 24, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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With the launch of the Apple Watch it’s time for timers in iOS and WatchKit. Learning to use timers is a very important skill for most developers. There are many places we need to schedule regular intervals of time to do things. In my… Continue Reading “Swift Swift: Using NSTimer to Make a Timer or Alarm”
Category: ios8, Swift Programming, Swift Swift, TutorialTags: Alarm clock, App Programming, Apple swift, autolayout, countdown timer, formatting NSTimeInterval, iPhone Programming, NSTimeInterval, NStimer, stopwatch, swift, swift programming, timer, Timer loop, timers in Swift, Xcode
Posted on January 27, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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[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,… Continue Reading “Tab Bar Controllers in Storyboards”
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, ios8, Swift Programming, Swift Swift, TutorialTags: autolayout, iPhone Programming, more, swift programming, Tab bar, tab bar icon color, Tab Bar Icons, Tab bar items, Tab bar more, Xcode, xibs in swift
Posted on January 8, 2015
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Basic Auto Layout: A Practical View for Beginners”
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, GUI, ios8Tags: align, align constraints, alignment, Auto Layout, autolayout, basic, Beginning, constraints, ios8, pin constraints, preview, storyboard, Tutorial, update constraints, Xcode
Posted on December 19, 2014
by Steven Lipton
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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… Continue Reading “Auto Layout and Size Classes: The Regular Size and Lining up Buttons Evenly”
Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, Swift Swift, TutorialTags: aligning buttons, Auto Layout, autolayout, even sized buttons., iPad, iphone 6 plus, regualr size classs, Regular, Size classes
Posted on November 25, 2014
by Steven Lipton
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Transcript Welcome to this quick lesson on auto layout and proportional spacing of elements. In the previous videos, we used equal widths to set the spacing for various elements in auto layout. But what if you want the sizes to be different? For example,… Continue Reading “Proportional Sizes in Autolayout”
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