Question

I’ve seen many people saying it’s easier to code your UI directly than to manipulate them in IB.

I know how to create UI objects from code but it just seems unnecessarily complicated, especially when you have 10+ subviews/controllers in one view(screen).

1. How do you visualize the UI layout when you create UI from code?

2. How do you make sure you are following the apple guidelines when placing the UI objects? (IB shows the blue dashed line to suggest you the correct(i guess) positions)

3. How do you manage to separate the UI creation part and the UI placement part in code? (maybe to figure out the UI layout easily)

and so on..

I wish there was a tutorial or example that can answer the above questions but hard to google.

Thank you for any suggestion.

Answer 1

I am creating my UIs from code with config files.
I have a test iPhone app that reads a config file and displays the UI, so i can tweak it.