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

Anna Vorozova
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What difference is between leftAnchor and leadingAnchor or rightAnchor and trailingAnchor?

What difference is between leftAnchor and leadingAnchor or rightAnchor and trailingAnchor?

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Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
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Anjali Pasupathy
Anjali Pasupathy
28,883 Points

To my understanding of the terms:

Left and right anchors refer to the left and right sides of the view.

Leading and trailing anchors, however, refer to the direction in which words and sentences are written. In English, which is written left-to-right, the leading anchor refers to the left, and the trailing anchor refers to the right. In languages that are written right-to-left, such as Arabic or Hebrew, the leading anchor refers to the right, and the trailing anchor refers to the left.

I hope this helps!