Question

I’m using a Storyboard for my app and I’m trying to make it iPhone 5-compatible. However, enabling Auto-Layout messes everything up – frame changes later in the code don’t work and so on… Is there any way I can make the iPhone 5 layout completely independent from the old iPhone 4-and-below layout (like create a separate storyboard just for the iPhone 5)?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you do not want to use the autolayout provided by apple, you could check for screensize of the device. Here’s a macro from another post at stackoverflow

#define IS_IPHONE_5 ( fabs( ( double )[ [ UIScreen mainScreen ] bounds ].size.height - ( double )568 ) < DBL_EPSILON )

With that macro, you could build a separate storyboard for the iPhone 5 only, and initialize it in your AppDelegate with this

NSString *storyboardName;
if (IS_IPHONE_5)
    storyboardName = @"MainStoryboard_iPhone5";
else storyboardName = @"MainStoryboard_iPhone";
storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:storyboardName bundle:nil];