As someone who has done a decent amount of Swing/Android development, I've often wondered: why hasn't iOS historically had decent layout manager support? I've used RelativeLayout for Android and quite frankly I've found very few instances where it didn't do what I wanted: the reduced number of iOS form factors makes it easier to do pixel-perfect layouts (than the thousands of Android devices) but even AutoLayout seems like a poor replica of what the Swing/Android layout manager-style libraries can do. I use it both from the Android XML and from code and it makes life REALLY easy. I've done a lot of work with storyboard/IB recently and it isn't as bad as I used to think, but always wondered about that.
this probably explains why android would have it but not iOS, originally iOS only had 1 screen size and didn't need it (though it still would have been much better). Now that new screen sizes are being released / rumoured its much more useful
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As someone who has done a decent amount of Swing/Android development, I've often wondered: why hasn't iOS historically had decent layout manager support? I've used RelativeLayout for Android and quite frankly I've found very few instances where it didn't do what I wanted: the reduced number of iOS form factors makes it easier to do pixel-perfect layouts (than the thousands of Android devices) but even AutoLayout seems like a poor replica of what the Swing/Android layout manager-style libraries can do. I use it both from the Android XML and from code and it makes life REALLY easy. I've done a lot of work with storyboard/IB recently and it isn't as bad as I used to think, but always wondered about that.
this probably explains why android would have it but not iOS, originally iOS only had 1 screen size and didn't need it (though it still would have been much better). Now that new screen sizes are being released / rumoured its much more useful