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Show HN: MarkupKit – Declarative UI for iOS Applications

23 points by gk_brown 11y ago

gk_brown 11y ago
Some additional information and examples: Implementing Radio Button-Like Behavior in iOS Applications https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/using-lmtableview-to-implement-radio-button-like-behavior-in-ios-applications/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/using-lmtableview-t... Creating Custom Table View Cells in Markup https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/creating-custom-table-view-cells-in-markup/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/creating-custom-tab... Using UIStackView with MarkupKit https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-with-markupkit/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-w... MarkupKit Examples https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/markupkit-examples/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/markupkit-examples/ A Practical Example Using MarkupKit and WebRPC https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/a-practical-example-using-markupkit-and-webrpc/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/a-practical-example...
DenisM 11y ago
How are the controls sized and placed? Is there a layout engine in there?
- gk_brown 11y ago
  It uses autolayout. The details of constraint management are abstracted by layout views such as LMRowView and LMColumnView. You can also use the new UIStackView class Apple added in iOS 9. See this article for more information: https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-with-markupkit/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-w...
BishoyDemian 11y ago
So this looks a lot like XAML[1] for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)[2] to me. and I'm actually quite surprised that this was not the case for iOS development from the beginning! (declaimer: I never touched native iOS development before as a 100% Microsoft technologies professional) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundatio...
- gk_brown 11y ago
  XAML was definitely one of the inspirations for MarkupKit. It was also inspired in part by MXML (Apache Flex), FXML (JavaFX), and to some extent HTML. It's also conceptually similar to the markup language used to build Android applications, though I don't have much experience with that.

23 points by gk_brown 11y ago

Some additional information and examples: Implementing Radio Button-Like Behavior in iOS Applications https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/using-lmtableview-to-implement-radio-button-like-behavior-in-ios-applications/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/using-lmtableview-t... Creating Custom Table View Cells in Markup https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/creating-custom-table-view-cells-in-markup/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/19/creating-custom-tab... Using UIStackView with MarkupKit https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-with-markupkit/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-w... MarkupKit Examples https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/markupkit-examples/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/08/14/markupkit-examples/ A Practical Example Using MarkupKit and WebRPC https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/a-practical-example-using-markupkit-and-webrpc/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/a-practical-example...

DenisM 11y ago

How are the controls sized and placed? Is there a layout engine in there?

gk_brown 11y ago
It uses autolayout. The details of constraint management are abstracted by layout views such as LMRowView and LMColumnView. You can also use the new UIStackView class Apple added in iOS 9. See this article for more information: https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-with-markupkit/ https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-w...

BishoyDemian 11y ago

So this looks a lot like XAML[1] for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)[2] to me. and I'm actually quite surprised that this was not the case for iOS development from the beginning! (declaimer: I never touched native iOS development before as a 100% Microsoft technologies professional) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_Language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Application_Markup_... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Presentation_Foundatio...

gk_brown 11y ago
XAML was definitely one of the inspirations for MarkupKit. It was also inspired in part by MXML (Apache Flex), FXML (JavaFX), and to some extent HTML. It's also conceptually similar to the markup language used to build Android applications, though I don't have much experience with that.