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iOS Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   iOS Programming Cookbook Over 50 exciting and powerful recipes to help you unearth the promise of iOS programming

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786460981
Length 520 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Swift Programming Language FREE CHAPTER 2. The Essentials 3. Integrating with Messages App 4. Working with Interface Builder 5. Working with UITableView 6. Animations and Graphics 7. Multimedia 8. Concurrency 9. Location Services 10. Security and Encryption 11. Networking 12. Persisting Data with Core Data 13. Notifications 14. App Search 15. Optimizing Performance

Working with stack views


UIStackView is one of the coolest features introduced in iOS 9.0 for developers. It was a hassle to arrange groups of views horizontally or vertically. You had to get your hands dirty with a lot of Auto Layout constraints to arrange these views properly. UIStackView makes arranging subviews horizontally or vertically easier without you worrying about Auto Layout. Although you don't need to use Auto Layout to arrange your views, as its UIStackview's job, you still need to use Auto Layout to define position and size of the stack view itself. If you're still not convinced about the magic that UIStackView does, you have to give it a shot.

How to do it

  1. As usual, let's create a new Xcode project with Single View template and name it StackViews.

  2. Open the storyboard file and select the view controller and change its size to iPhone 4-inch.

  3. From Object Library, drag a Vertical stack view and add it as a subview.

  4. Change its frame to (X = 20, Y = 20, Width = 280).

  5. We need to add constraints...

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