Rediscovering Interface Builder

Love Interface Builder? Hate Interface Builder?? Leah built her first few apps completely without IB before gradually learning to love nibs. In this talk, Leah will cover some tips and tricks for the best (and worse) ways to use IB in your app.

NSMeetup, January 8, 2014
http://www.meetup.com/nsmeetup/events/155408052/

Transcript

1. Rediscovering Interface Builder Leah Culver NSMeetup Jan 2014
2. web developer
3. Sincerely
5. Pros and Cons (via Twitter)
6. pro: easy to find stuff visually
7. (screenshot of storyboard)
8. pro: fast to use
10. pro: less code to write cell.textField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeAlphabet; cell.textField.secureTextEntry = NO; cell.textField.autocorrectionType = UITextAutocorrectionTypeNo; cell.textField.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeWords; cell.textField.returnKeyType = UIReturnKeyNext;
11. con: no source of truth
12. solution: check it out
13. con: customization
17. pro: working with designers
18. con: merge hell
19. solution: divide projects by views
20. solution: diff it
21. con: hooking it up
22. solution: assistant editor
24. 2014-01-07 18:15:34.499 Embetterment[22366:70b] Unknown class EMHabbitCell in Interface Builder file. 2014-01-07 18:15:34.508 Embetterment[22366:70b] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSUnknownKeyException', reason: '[<UITableViewCell 0x8b6eef0> setValue:forUndefinedKey:]: this class is not key value coding- compliant for the key actionsView.'
25. con: learning curve
26. worth it
27. Thanks! @buzz, @_Jordan, @jacksonh, @subdigital, @myusuf3, @jhersh, @luka_bernardi, @gilesvangruisen, @emullet, @chrishol, @sholtaway, @evan_wingfield, @olavgm, @mhollemans, @jgervin, @conradstoll, @dinhvh, @kaler, @yeahphil, @infraredflower, @JoshDance, @Jeremy_Black, @jakeboxer, @billymeltdown, @ayanonagon, @asarazan
28. APIs and jobs
29. questions and debate?
30. http://twitpic.com/chqkfg http://www.flickr.com/photos/missha/6608792/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/donovan_beeson/6071258211 Photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/93736151@N00/244988002/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/shebalso/7541083114/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/dennis_larson/5529077785/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlc/3846080374/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/loudtiger/4262199518/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/56866600@N00/5727076612/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cairnsdining/5499559448/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/17405338@N00/188664587/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tronics/380379732/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/sewpixie/2665022547/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeshlabotnik/3584172834/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/maryscheirer/4569411154/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/paracon/6280101434/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/ggunson/34107948/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/nouqraz/200049988/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordon2208/4638967635/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/buttongirl/4590226315/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/30003321@N00/3530906056/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/salim/402618628/