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Auto layout is fiddly and annoying. You have to specify at least 3 or 4 constraints per element, often more. It also has no concept of flow, which in my book ma
by woah 11y ago
Auto layout is fiddly and annoying. You have to specify at least 3 or 4 constraints per element, often more. It also has no concept of flow, which in my book makes it essentially useless for many applications.
- alexashka 11y agoSpecifying constraints one time and having them work across landscape/portrait and different sizes, all done in a UI interface, with warnings/errors to help you out. Being able to specify relationships of any element to any other element. So much worse than typing in a text file, saving, refreshing your browser, testing in different browsers, testing on different phone devices, polyfills, -webkit, etc etc etc. Autolayout got ways to go to catch up to web dev huh :) I feel your pain regarding auto layout being difficult SOMETIMES but if you've come from web dev and you're not crying tears of joy at not having to waste your life trying to create proper column layouts with a footer and a header (the 'holy grail' of web dev, lol the bar is set so low it's hitting me in the ankle), I don't know what to tell you :) Also, what the heck is this flow concept. I hope you're not referring to uicollectionview which has, flow layout, lol.