4. Auto Layout
Apps on the iPhone and iPod touch can display their content in either portrait or landscape. And the devices come with either 3.5-inch or 4-inch displays. This makes four different layouts: portrait and landscape in each of two screen sizes. The interface you built in Chapter 3, “Introducing Storyboards,” is specifically for 4-inch portrait displays.
Even with a visual editor, creating an app to support four different layouts can be a challenge, especially when you have dynamic screen elements and, as you will see in Chapter 5, “Localization,” even different lengths for labels when the language changes. The result can be lots of customization code, as well as multiple view controllers for the same screen on your storyboard.
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