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A Grand Unification Theory of iOS Styling

June 11, 2016

If you've been on a team developing iOS apps before, you've probably been involved in a discussion or outright debate about how to handle styling, or the visual appearance of the app. Here, roughly, are the three sides of that debate:

1. We should style everything directly in storyboards / Interface Builder

It's . . .

WWDC 2016 Wishlist #3 : More Useful Size Classes

June 01, 2016

The Current State of Size Classes

Apple introduced size classes in iOS 8, which provide a broad description of horizontal and vertical screen space. These broad descriptions currently only include "Regular" or "Compact" options. The great thing about size classes is that they allow developers to create different . . .