Tag: Size classes

• June 30, 2016

  Adding Modal Views and Popovers in Swift 3.0

  

  Modal views are one of the fundamental ways to present view controllers. Some early applications on the iPhone were completely modal views — some still do.  Modals do not do their own housekeeping like navigation controllers or tab controllers, so they are not as efficient for the backbone of your application. They need the user’s…
• 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…
• June 8, 2015

  6 Themes to Expect at Apple’s WWDC 2015 No One is Talking About.

  Once a year, Apple developers get together in San Francisco. Some lucky people in person, most through on-line connections. The event is the World Wide Developer’s Confrence (WWDC), the event for those people and companies developing applications for OSX and iOS. As a developer, I look froward to this event every year and have a…
• 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…
• 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…
• November 14, 2014

  Swift Swift: Using Auto Layout with Size Classes

  Last week we looked at the basics of auto layout, this week, we learn Diagonal Control Drag Using the layout error  panel for misplaced layouts Introduce Size Classes Make a different layout for iPhone in portrait with Size Classes Transcript Hello, I’m Steve from MakeAppPie.com. In this video we are going to learn some more…
• August 30, 2014

  The Swift Swift Tutorials: Adding Modal Views and Popovers

  [Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9 9/29/15] There are times your user interface needs to grab attention for a control. This is what modal views and popovers are. Modal views are one of the oldest of the view controllers. Some early applications on the iPhone were completely modal views — some still do.  Modals do not do…