LooN3y Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 I know its good when changing form landscape to portrait orientationbut is it good for transitioning from iPhone Storyboard to iPad? the iPhone version is going to be only portrait but the iPad version of my app will support landscape orientation and portrait. (the iPad storyboard is just going to be a bigger version of the app [bigger/more images, bigger tableview, it will not have any split views or multiple tableviews] almost exactly the same) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH3L4UGH1NGM4N Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Genereally speaking from my experience in using auto layout it can either be a grand hit or a great miss in terms of laying out objects within a storyboard. I do use autolayout in both iPhone and iPad storyboards because they translate the objects correctly on screen at runtime but I've seen cases where objects would be placed in unintended places when I had it on and was only fixed when I turned autolayout off albeit having to correctly place the objects in that view controller in their respective places. Just remember of course that constraints plays a role when rotating into landscape view. If you've used autolayout in the iPhone layout then you could follow suit for iPad as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooN3y Posted July 3, 2013 Author Share Posted July 3, 2013 Genereally speaking from my experience in using auto layout it can either be a grand hit or a great miss in terms of laying out objects within a storyboard. I do use autolayout in both iPhone and iPad storyboards because they translate the objects correctly on screen at runtime but I've seen cases where objects would be placed in unintended places when I had it on and was only fixed when I turned autolayout off albeit having to correctly place the objects in that view controller in their respective places. Just remember of course that constraints plays a role when rotating into landscape view. If you've used autolayout in the iPhone layout then you could follow suit for iPad as well. im doing some screens in IB and im just having a tedious time the iPadStoryboard as i copied and pasted all the views from the iPhoneStoryboard, just too many constraints, and the thing is i can probably knock it out within one full day, doing it manually. is it worth just doing it with autolayouts, will it be worth it/beneficial in the end? regarding new screens sizes (i.e. iphone5) its just really pissing me off, my manager wants to do it that way, but hes willing to not do if its not worth it. should we go on with it? or should we wait till they improve it? edit: im goign with auto layout, since itll be worth it, its just very tedious, annoying, and it pisses me off lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TH3L4UGH1NGM4N Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 Thing is that copying from iPhone storyboard to iPad storyboard never worked out all that great for me because the size of the View Controllers I'm not sure if it is the DP of Xcode 5 but damn did it just mess things up for me so I had to end up doing the storyboard from scratch for iPad and linking it with the source files which honestly didn't turn out as bad as I expected but I learned not to directly copy and paste across the two because of that. Can't say you should wait till it improves since your manager might not like to sit and patiently wait but try from scratch with the view controllers and see how it works out for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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