{"id":7107,"date":"2013-03-14T15:42:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7107"},"modified":"2013-03-14T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:46:01","slug":"simmons-interface-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/simmons-interface-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much, or How Little, I Use Interface Builder These Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2013\/03\/06\/how_much_or_how_little_i_use_interface\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2013\/03\/06\/how_much_or_how_little_i_use_interface\"><p>Any one of those would be enough: all three thoroughly convince me to stay away from IB for all but the rarest cases.<\/p>\n<p>And the fourth reason I added just yesterday is that dealing with auto layout in IB is not worth the hassle &mdash; not when it&rsquo;s so much easier done in code.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I basically agree that Interface Builder is a beautiful idea that never really lived up to its promise. For a long time, I&rsquo;ve been making small tweaks in code since it&rsquo;s so much easier than modifying xib files (especially when localization is involved). And I&rsquo;ve even run into bugs caused by IB incorrectly generating the xib. I hope to phase out IB as I transition to using auto layout.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Simmons: Any one of those would be enough: all three thoroughly convince me to stay away from IB for all but the rarest cases. And the fourth reason I added just yesterday is that dealing with auto layout in IB is not worth the hassle &mdash; not when it&rsquo;s so much easier done in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[200,69,370],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-autolayout","tag-cocoa","tag-interfacebuilder"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7110,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions\/7110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}