I have a horizontal UIStackView with 2 views within it. I'd like to have the left view take up ~70% of the screen, and the right view take up the remaining 30%. I know that I can set the UIStackView alignment to Fill and the distribution to Fill and that will allow me to have more control over my subview sizes. What I can't figure out is how to set the layout constraints/widths/etc. on the subviews so that the the 70/30 ratio is correct, particularly when the device is rotated?
Can anyone explain how to set the constraints on my subviews so that the 70/30 ratio is maintained across device rotations?
You should be able to do this by creating an equal width constraint for the two views. Then, set the multiplier to that constraint to 0.7.
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I've been trying to find a solution to this problem for a long time but I haven't been able to solve it. How do I make an image appear smaller so it would fit the screen on a smaller device? When I have in on a larger device it fits fine but when switched to a smaller screen the images start to overlap.
Example of images overlapping
I would really appreciate the help. Thank You!
Use auto layout and set your Uiimageview aspect ratio to 1:1
There are a lot of ways. Some are mentioned below:
Using Auto layout
connect every image to side of main view and set their widths and height ratio 1:1 , also set their width proportional to main view widht.
using stackviews and autolayout
1st set images width proportional to main view width
then set their aspect ratio 1 : 1
then add the columns to 2 vertical stack views and add both columns to horizontal stackview.
set the left right and bottom constraint of final stackview
You can use auto resizing as well, but that is not totally reliable.
autoresizing is default behavior of view. In your case you have to set flexible width and height of each image
I have a cell in which I place four buttons and four labels. Each button gets assigned a picture with width 50 and height 50. Furthermore, all buttons have a corresponding label describing what they're intended for.
My objective is to have the buttons and labels resize to keep the buttons' and labels' aspect ration intact while the screen dimension changes on different devices. I have been playing with auto layout changing the hugging and compression to achieve this but haven't been successful yet. Any help would be much appreciated...
I think you should take a look at a UIStackView, because this seems exactly as a use case for stack. Just put each pair button/label in a stack, and then all four pairs into a horizontal stack, which you constraint to the cell itself. You should be able to handle all you need just by configuring the stack’s properties (axis, distribution, alignment, spacing).
Embed your button and label into a view. Set the width of this view equal widths to content view and change the multiplier value to 1:4. This will adjust the widths of the views according to superview. Also, set the top and bottom constraint to 0 for this view.
Provide center align y-axis constraint to button after setting the width and height constraint to 50. Set its top constraint to a value you deem fit.
Set labels's leading and trailing constraint to a value like 8. Choose center alignment for text. Also, provide top constraint to buttona nd bottom to its superview.
Copy the view and paste to create the three views and provide them equal widths constraint to the first view. Also, provide their leading, trailing, top and bottom constraints.
Here are a fast tutorial in how to achieve that:
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2- completion of the first Gif:
Note you can achieve the same output using a UIStackView
So I am trying to make my launch screen for an app. The launch screen is made up of 2 text boxes and 2 UIImageViews.
This is my sketch up of what it will look like
My problem is I can not get auto layout to work with percentages of the screen, instead it has these numbers that I dont quite know what to do with. So while I know that the two image views are a 4th of the screen width from the edges I dont know how to put it their. Also I dont know how to make the image size occupy the same ratio of space on all devices.
Could you please get me started on setting this up?
autolayout does not Have Percentage support but it supports Aspect Ratio.
you need to add one view and add your two imageViews and textFields add equal width and height constraint for ImageViews and same for TextField
you can also add constraints to ImageView to expand in rest of space for that just add margin constraints and equal width and Height of ImageViews.
add aspect Ratio to ImageView's Width and SuperViews width as your requirement.
you can add aspect Ratio with individually to width and Height.
here as you mentioned in que. you can add aspect ration 4:1 for 4th of the screen size.
do same for TextField.
if you still need help than tell me I can explain in depth with screenshot.
I am desperatly trying to get to grips with Autolayout and need advice on how best to approach handling the following scenario. I am working with an existing design that I need to lay out appropriately so it will function on any iPhone screen size.
For each screen, I have identified a section of the app that should partially expand/collapse to compensate for the difference in screen height. I have illustrated this in the image below. Primarily, is this the best way to approach the problem?
Assuming this is the best way to approach the problem, how should constraints be added to fix the positioning and heights of views 1,2 & 4, while allowing view 2 and it's content to flex in accordance with the device view height?
I have experimented profusely with constraits and have been unable to achieve the illustrated outcome.
Here is how I would have done it.
All views:
Align the leading and trailing space to the superview
View 1:
Align the top to the superview or top layout guide
Add a fixed height
View 4:
Align the bottom to the superview or bottom layout guide
Add a fixed height
View 3:
Align the bottom to view 4 (using vertical spacing)
Add a fixed height
View 2:
Align the top to view 1
Align the bottom to view 3
If you want the result in your pictures, here is how to do it. You can choose to use wAny|hAny size class.
From top to bottom, set vertical spacing between each adjacent views to be 0.
Set height constraint for view1 and view3 and view4 to be a static value.
Then the height of view2 should vary on different screen sizes.
Looking from your picture, your view1 occupies almost half of the screen space. So my suggestion is to make its height to be proportional, you can set view1 and its superview to be equal width, then modify this equal width constraint's ratio to be 0.5. You can do the same for other views in your picture.
In addition to other answers, with the visual format, it should look like smth like this
V:|[view1(HIGHTV1)][view2][HIGHT3(HIGHTV3)][view4(HIGHTV4)]|
Repalce HIGHTVX with the static sizes
Suppose that I have the following view controller and this is how I want to see it on all iPhone:
If I run it on iPhone 6 it has the following look:
Here you can notice that UITableView not fit the whole screen and UIImageView doesn't placed at the bottom of the screen.
How can I achieve the required behavior via constraints in XCode 6? I thought that I need the following constraints:
Leading space and top space to container margin for UITableView
Bottom space and trailing space to container margin for UIImageView
Vertical Spacing between UITableView and UIImageView
But it doesn't work as expected even after auto-resolve constraints issues:
Thanks in advance.
Ok, a few things here:
Each view needs enough constraints to define it's x and y position, and it's width and height unambiguously. To start with, go back to Interface builder and delete all of your constraints and lay out the view as you would like it to look. You want to have control over every constraint added, don't let IB automatically resolve the issues, as in all likely hood it won't do what you want.
Do you have an image that is the size you want it to be on screen, once you've factored in #2x, #3x etc? If so, then your job will be easier, as the width and height of the image view can be defined by the width and height of the image (ie the image view's intrinsic content size).
In order to use Autolayout effectively, you need to think about your view holistically, and think about how you want your views to behave when the screen size changes, be clear in your head about the behaviour.
To achieve the layout you want, I would do the following:
Constrain the tableview's leading, top and trailing edges to the superview, with a constant value of 0. This means it can get wider and thinner with the device, it will stretch horizontally, but always stick to the top. This has defined the tableview's x and y position, as well as it's width (height still to go, but keep reading...)
Constrain the image view to match the horizontal centre of it's superview (x position defined) and constrain it's bottom edge to the superviews bottom edge (y position defined). If've you've got the right sized asset, then that will take care of the width and height too. If not, you could go ahead give it explicit width and height constraints.
Now we can constrain the tableview's bottom edge to the top of the image view, with a constant of 0 (ie touching). Note we haven't give the table view an explicit height constraint, so as the device screen grows vertically, the table view will stretch vertically.
Autolayout is hard at first. I'd recommended lots of reading to get over the initial hump, really get to know what a constraint is doing, it's limitations, and the way in which the system parses constraints to translate them into frames. This book is really good, and really helped me learn:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Auto-Layout-Demystified-Mobile-Programming/dp/0321967194
Best of luck
First make sure you have selected the correct size class. The 'Compact Width | Regular Height' size class must be selected in the Interface Builder. Now add the Trailing space,Leading Space, Top space and Bottom space constraints to the table view. For the image view set the view mode to Aspect fit and add the constraints : Align Center Y ,Top space,Bottom space, Leading space, Trailing space and Aspect Ratio .