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iOS

Posted by Jason Gong
Jason Gong
4,537 Points

Use Storyboard or Pure Code to create UI

In coding in IOS, googling for answers seems to provide a pretty split view on whether to use the storyboard to style, link, set constraints, etc for parts of the app. I've always found it easier to use the storyboard since you can see it and thats what TreeHouse uses in the tutorials.

But should I learn how to do it by code?

Will there be things I encounter as I do more advanced things that will be better done in code?

Erion Vlada
Erion Vlada
13,496 Points

From what iv research there is no one best way to do it. You can even mix and match, depending on what suits. Learning to do it by code is defiantly a win though, you will understand much more or how things are actually put together.

Apple is pushing Storyboards a lot, if you open some of their in house apps, they are made with xib files, so that tells you a lot.

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Eduardo Rojas
Eduardo Rojas
4,084 Points
Eduardo Rojas
Eduardo Rojas
4,084 Points

ill tell you a personal experience:

I'm finishing a game and i made it using UIView and now Sprite Kit (which later i discovered it was a error), but why it was a error? well if Ii wanted to add a character aligned to something its really different in code than in the storyboard, so the objects may move making your app crash, if you are having a single view application that shows info or images i think the storyboard is a good way to go, but if you are trying to make something more complex like a game ill suggest you try using spriteKit or do it programmatically, in personal opinion you should try learning to code the most you can