Well, it was a challenge, but I got it done. This past weekend I spent most of the time refactoring my personal app to using iOS 6.1’s autolayout capabilities. While I started off pulling out my hair, I ended the weekend with screens that looked pretty good, and that correctly handled almost everything I could throw at it. The net of all of this, is that I learned how to improve the flexibility of my apps. (I now can correctly re-size between iPhone 5 and pre-iPhone 5 layouts). <\/p>\n
The biggest problem when going thru this, was that XCode kept trying to guess what I was trying to do. It would pin objects to the top of the screen, which would then disappear beyond the bottom of the screen when I rotated the screen. It would link two assets and then assume that I wanted the same spacing when I rotated, again pushing things around. The biggest thing I learned was to treat your screen layout like a bunch of sub-views. This allows you to then group things in subviews and build up relationships between the subviews. It reminded me of hand coding websites years ago, right after HTML introduced tables. <\/p>\n
The other key thing to do, is make sure you pay attention to Less than, Equal, and Greater than. This impacts how things will grow or shrink. I cannot tell you how many times I caught myself with a Equal link(the default), when I wanted things to shrink down, a Less Than link. So far I have not gone into the details of code centric autolayouts, but for my simple app, I didn’t need that yet. <\/p>\n
I can try and address questions if you have any, so drop a comment to the blog!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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