August 2015
Beginner
572 pages
12h 22m
English
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Chapter 22
Simplifying User Interface Design
Designing a user interface can be challenging. Not only do you need to design a user interface that’s easy to use, but you also need to design an adaptive user interface that can respond to any changes the user might make to a window’s size. If the user shrinks a window, your user interface must shrink accordingly without cutting any items off. If the user enlarges a window, your user interface must expand accordingly to maintain a consistent appearance.
To help create adaptive user interfaces, Xcode provides constraints that fix the edges of various user interface items to a window’s edge or the edge of other user interface items. In this chapter, you’ll learn more about constraints and storyboards ...