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iOS Build an Interactive Story App with Swift 2 Creating the User Interface Programmatically Creating Views Programmatically

Jordan George
Jordan George
9,926 Points
Posted by Jordan George
Jordan George
9,926 Points

How does NSLayoutConstraint know what size the artwork should be?

I just figured that we would have to end up resizing the artwork but then was surprised to see it already done.

1 Answer

Drew Carver
Drew Carver
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Drew Carver
Drew Carver
5,189 Points

I believe what's happening is that since the UIImage object is being constrained to all 4 sides of the view, when we load the image into it, it's going to fill that entire area, without stretching the image. Thus it goes fully across the sides and top and doesn't stretch to the bottom (to maintain the aspect ratio of the image).

I couldn't find anything stating this specifically, so if anyone else has any input, feel free to chime in.

Abdulwahab Alansari
Abdulwahab Alansari
15,151 Points
Abdulwahab Alansari
Abdulwahab Alansari
15,151 Points

I was asking myself why the image didn't stretch to the bottom of the view.