Styling iOS apps Swiftly (NSSpain '16)

Styling apps with stylesheets is fast, it enforces focus on reusability, and it's literally a common language with designers. Although there are several interesting ways to consider, let's see if Swift can revolutionize this approach! 🐥

When working on different apps of the same brand, there are a lot of logic we build to be shared. It's also quite usual that apps wear similar design, that's when reusing style becomes pretty important. We came across several solutions when working with Objective-C, like Classy and NUI, and love both. I'd like to share the experience we gathered through building apps with them, the good parts and the tradeoffs, and how does it look like if we forget these and try to solve the problem with Swift and its awesomeness.

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1. iOS apps SWIFTLY Agnes Vasarhelyi STYLING
3. data business UI 㿃
5. data UI Business 㿃
6. STORYBOARDS http://objectivetoast.com/2014/07/10/solving-the-massive-storyboard-problem/
14. UI code Great with defining reuse layout team live Easy to Common language within the Can reload
16. Content Presentation 㿃
17. http://classykit.github.io/Classy/
20. https://github.com/tombenner/nui
24. DEFINE A LANGUAGE
26. PARSE IT
28. UIAppearance
31. UITraitCollection
32. horizontal and vertical size class, display scale, user interface idiom _UITraitNameUserInterfaceIdiom = Phone, _UITraitNameDisplayScale = 2.000000, _UITraitNameHorizontalSizeClass = Compact, _UITraitNameVerticalSizeClass = Regular,
34. EXTEND
36. CONS app size - parsing time UIAppearance -> KVO code review
37. PROS teamwork live reload use the same style in more apps parsing errors in compile time
38. https://github.com/vasarhelyia/SwiftySheetsDemo
39. SPECIAL Photos from unsplash.com Agnes Vasarhelyi | @vasarhelyia