Coming to Cocoa dev from the web all of the direct manipulation in objective C of styling seems like mayhem. I’m not very far in, but already the giant amount of searching and replacing required to change all the corner radii in an app is crazy.
For me it seems obvious that this stuff should be /declared/ in one place, with all other styling mechanism, not littered through dozens of classes that are primarily interested in getting things done, not looking pretty.
Of course I’m a new at this - and everyone seems to think the other way is better… So maybe I’ll come around with time, but right now Pixate seems like a great idea.
FWIW this kind of thing is far, far easier on Android. It has it's own styling system that's somewhat similar to CSS and you can define and reuse properties and layout elements in a much saner way than the hodgepodge of tricks you have to resort to in iOS. Actually this is one of the reasons I consider Android to be overall easier than iOS to develop for.
Beginner often tend to underuse storyboards. Except for fadein/fadeout and views being moved you really never end up coding styles in Obj-c. It's all done graphically using xcode and interface builder. Rounding corners is very often not necessary at all, since you end up using images all the time for buttons and backgrounds.
The stuff I'm working on doesn't use interface builder at all. Nor storyboards. When I start a new project I'll take a look - I was actually advised to ignore the tools and go all code all the time (and lots of images). And it’s worked out - but this is certainly a downside.
Exactly. Plus storyboards tend to lock you in, and moving around and constantly iterating to better and better nav schemes kind of goes out the window.
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Coming to Cocoa dev from the web all of the direct manipulation in objective C of styling seems like mayhem. I’m not very far in, but already the giant amount of searching and replacing required to change all the corner radii in an app is crazy.
For me it seems obvious that this stuff should be /declared/ in one place, with all other styling mechanism, not littered through dozens of classes that are primarily interested in getting things done, not looking pretty.
Of course I’m a new at this - and everyone seems to think the other way is better… So maybe I’ll come around with time, but right now Pixate seems like a great idea.
FWIW this kind of thing is far, far easier on Android. It has it's own styling system that's somewhat similar to CSS and you can define and reuse properties and layout elements in a much saner way than the hodgepodge of tricks you have to resort to in iOS. Actually this is one of the reasons I consider Android to be overall easier than iOS to develop for.
Beginner often tend to underuse storyboards. Except for fadein/fadeout and views being moved you really never end up coding styles in Obj-c. It's all done graphically using xcode and interface builder. Rounding corners is very often not necessary at all, since you end up using images all the time for buttons and backgrounds.
The stuff I'm working on doesn't use interface builder at all. Nor storyboards. When I start a new project I'll take a look - I was actually advised to ignore the tools and go all code all the time (and lots of images). And it’s worked out - but this is certainly a downside.
ever worked with git and storyboards? quite the disaster once you're more than the sole developer
Exactly. Plus storyboards tend to lock you in, and moving around and constantly iterating to better and better nav schemes kind of goes out the window.