Yeah I actually like AutoLayout and InterfaceBuilder but it is incredibly frustrating when it doesn’t work. It hates being over constrained, so your layout in I

Yeah I actually like AutoLayout and InterfaceBuilder but it is incredibly frustrating when it doesn’t work. It hates being over constrained, so your layout in IB makes logical sense to you but then the debugging console will clog with autolayout complaints about which constraint it had to break. Also anything with scroll views and/or stack views has been a nightmare in my experience. What should happen is that the stack view and scroll view should “expand” outward from their sub views based on those sub views intrinsic content sizes. Instead a lot of the time autolayout seems to try to start with the scroll view or stackviews size and compress “inwards” and so the only way Autolayout thinks it can satisfy everything is for everything to have a size of zero and your views disappear. Also mobile devices don’t seem to conform well with rigid grid systems from a design standpoint. System provided UI conponents(like tab bars and nav bars on iOS) have their own sizes that won’t conform to your grid, users can change text size (a good thing), and animations and “physics” (like UIKitDynamics) necessarily mean you won’t have a grid.