12. Autolayout in a New View

Chapter 11, “Building a New View,” was about creating scenes in Passer Rating. To preserve that focus, I finessed the issue of autolayout with a quick workaround. For the purpose of an exercise, you don’t need to do more; Passer Rating is not a professional-grade product.

You’ll need to know more sooner or later, and this chapter is a closer look at autolayout. You can put it off, or even skip it entirely. I won’t know.

Note

If you attempted autolayout in Xcode 4, you found it was a nightmare, and I wouldn’t blame you if you were a bit phobic on the subject. It’s better in Xcode 5. Much better. However, the new workflow is available only if you select Xcode 5.0 in the Opens in popup in the File inspector. If you ...

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