The Auto Layout Comprehendium
Mischa Hildebrand (2017, via Tanner Bennett):
Auto Layout is essential for creating modern, responsive user interfaces on iOS and macOS. Its core idea is easy to grasp – yet, it feels like a jungle full of hidden secrets to many. Once you dive a little deeper into the topic, you will discover that there is much more below the simple surface. The Auto Layout Comprehendium™️ is intended as a compendium for you to look up certain topics and to fully understand the internal mechanics behind the technology. While following an intuitive approach, it will help you master Auto Layout at a deeper level and empower you to build adaptable layouts without conflicts or ambiguities.
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If there was only a single constraint for the intrinsic content size that couldn’t be satisfied that constraint would simply be ignored and the view would have an undefined size.
That’s why in reality the intrinsic content size (for one dimension) is represented by two inequality constraints[…]
Previously:
- SwiftUI Layout Explained
- WTF Auto Layout?
- Building on Auto Layout
- Constraint Activation
- Pain Free Constraints With Layout Anchors
- How to Use -updateConstraints
- Achieving Zen With Auto Layout
- Auto Layout on OS X: Backwards Compatibility
- Auto Layout and Views That Wrap
- 10 Things You Need to Know About Cocoa Autolayout
- Issues With Achieving Auto Layout Zen
