Tag: constraints

• November 25, 2015

  Using Trait Collections for Auto Layout and Size Classes

  

  Suppose you have a project with adaptive layout, but you hate storyboards. You’ve coded all your layout and then find something horrible: it only codes well in portrait on an iPhone. You’ve decided that some of the elements need to be in a different place in portrait and completely different places on an iPad.  In…
• 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…
• November 25, 2014

  Proportional Sizes in Autolayout

  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, what if in the app we are working with the buttons…