Linking up tutorial part 1 of 2 here. Another Ray Wenderlich thing, this time written by Brandon Trebitowski.
If you’re tired of displaying things in a UITableView or would like the option to present the same list materials in various different configurations (cover flow, orbiting items, whatever) then you should look into UICollectionViews sooner rather than later.
I was kind of blown away by this stuff when attending the past WWDC. It’s very nice stuff.
I’ll admit that this previous Cocoaheads Boston meeting got me thinking about Auto Layout again. I tried it in the past on my own and found it too different from springs and struts that I simply converted my ViewController to use those instead of Auto Layout a third of the way along. I just couldn’t be bothered.
Scrubbing the net for some information beyond the developer documentation given by Apple, I wanted to find a tutorial or two that was decent that could get myself better caught up. Yes UICollectionViews are next (saw them demo’d at WWDC), but let me get back on track.
I found a tutorial (in two parts because each is so full of information) on RayWenderlich by Matthijs Hollemans and they are extremely well done.
Matthijs has put a lot of effort into these tutorials and you can follow right along in your test Xcode project. I think that these two tutorials can go a very long way in getting you up to speed with Auto Layout and make it something you won’t despise or fear in the future. It obviously doesn’t always make sense to use it over springs and struts, but there are times when it can make your development layouts much, much more powerful.