I am using a storyboard to create a viewcontroller with several items listed vertically (UIImageView, UILabel, UITextView, UISwitch etc.). When switching from iPhone5 to iPhone4 I want to have all the same views to keep the same size, but the vertical space between them should scale so they are spaced equally down the length of the page.
I can't figure out how to do this with autolayout. I either get the views themselves being stretched/squeezed, or everything gets stuck at the same positions and doesn't move at all...
I can't figure out how to get the vertical spaces between views to scale proportionately so the views are positioned equally-spaced on the page.
Is this possible? What do I need to do to set this up?
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I would like to center four buttons horizontally and vertically. Each of the buttons shall get a background image later, so I think it's important that the aspect ratio stays more or less the same, otherwise the pictures won't fit onto the button.
A screenshot of what it should look like:
All buttons have the same size and should take up as much space as available (small margin, 10px or so, not more if possible). I don't know how to set the constraints that the application looks good on all devices (iPhone 5s and iPad 10.5").
The application must not necessarily run in all orientation modes.
How do I have to set the constraints?
This problem can easily be reduced to the problem of making a maximum square centered in its superview. You can do that easily with just four constraints:
The rest — the grid of buttons — just falls into your lap. For example, make my blue view a UIStackView containing a two UIStackViews, and there's your grid. Or you could do it with explicit constraints yourself.
If this app can rotate, you might need two sets of constraints, one for when the width is less than the height, the other for when the height is less than the width. You would then have to swap them in code. But that's another issue, and is not difficult.
Add them to UIStackView, for placing them horisontally use horisontal value for axis property you can customize it with distribution, alignment and other properties of UIStackView.
It's the easiest way
So I have some one line views that are set to be dividers between fields. They are UIViews that I just set the background color on. All of them are in IB with constraints, the width or height set to 1, and then tied to other fields and/or the leading/trialing space to the superview.
The view size for he VC is inferred, and is at the 4 inch size.
But when viewed on a 6 device, or in the simulator, these single point views sometimes come out as what appears to be 2 points. I've tried raising the compression resistance of the views, as well as tying them to items that don't require them to expand if it's needed to display the view while keeping to the constraints.
The top, middle and bottom lines, as well as the two vertical ones are all 1 point width or height views.
What is causing these views to display like this?
I have constraints on my UIButtons in iPad app so that the top row of buttons stays a certain distance from the UIImageView, and so the bottom row of buttons stays pinned fairly close to the bottom. However, when I rotate it goes all wrong. Here is the image of when in Portrait and when in Landscape. How can this be fixed, given the less amount of vertical real estate in landscape mode?
You will either need to scale the size of your subviews upon rotation, or use a scroll-view.
Because you are positioning your buttons a certain distance from the bottom of the screen instead of keeping consistent spacing, they overlap when not enough space is available. (I'm assuming from your screenshots that it is breaking the constraint between the 2 rows of buttons, assuming there is one)
You can relate the available space for each row of buttons to the total vertical size of the main view. For instance, let the image be 50% of the total vertical space, and 25% to each row of buttons (I would set up a container view for each row and then add constraints to the containers). Make sure that your images/buttons properly scale and maintain their aspect ratio.
Another option could be to recognize when the view rotates, and modify all of the constraints so that your buttons all layout in a single row, but this could involve a decent amount of coding to swap/change most of your constraints.
I've read quite a few tutorials and watched numerous videos on using constraints in Xcode. For some reason, I'm still missing certain aspects that are necessary to make the user interface look the way it's supposed to for all screen sizes.
Currently, I have a UITableView laying on a view controller. The view controller is set to "Inferred" size and I have all of the different sized devices open in Assistant Editor Preview to the right so I can view the changes. I've encountered multiple problems attempting to get the constraints correct for the different screen sizes.
Problem 1: The UITableView has a width set to 600. This causes dead space to the right of the table view on the iPad preview and it causes the UITableView to extend too far on the smaller devices. If I make the width of the table view smaller so that it fits within the preview of all screen sizes and then pin the left and right edges of the table view to the edge of the Superview by specifying 0 and unchecking constrain to margins, the result I'm seeing in preview is that the entire table view disappears completely from each device size. I was surprised by this because I thought by pinning the table view to the margins, it would make the table view fit within each of the screens.
Problem 2: (This is a completely different scenario from Problem 1, above.) In this situation, I've left the size of the table view to 600 and just specified constraints for the internal components of the cell contained within the tableview. In this case, the table view is still slightly not wide enough for the iPad dimensions and it extends too far on the smaller devices which makes components in the cells to be truncated and off of center.
I've primarily been working in Storyboard with Any width, Any height set. However, if I change the setting to Compact width, Any height, I can alter the constraints to fit the smaller devices a little better, but there's still a problem with getting things to work between the 5.5 inch screen and the smaller devices.
I would like to get my UITableView to extend all the way to the edges on each device and I would like to have the view inside of the cell remain centered and keep it's relative size on each of the devices. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can accomplish this?
if you want to make your tableview to "fill" the whole screen (device-independent) the only thing you have to do is to pin its 4 edges (top, left, bottom, right) to its superview (the viewcontrollers view in your case) with a constant of 0.
you do not specify a specific width (like in your case 600) or height.
good luck :)
I have a relatively simple portrait-only UI, laid out in a Storyboard, with items which I want to vertically spread to fill both 3.5 inch and 4 inch screens.
In other words, I want the spacing between the controls to be adjusted so that the UI nicely fills the screen, irrespective of the screen form factor.
This doesn't seem like an unusual thing to want to do, however I just can't get Interface Builder (within Xcode 5) to add the right constraints - I only seem to be able to get it to add fixed vertical space constraints, which do not adjust for different screen sizes.
Does anyone know how to do this without resorting to programmatic UI construction? I've invested a lot of effort in getting the Storyboard-based UI just right.
The solution needs to work on both iOS 6 and 7. Thanks!
How to do this depends on exactly what kind of adjustment you want when the screen size changes. One way to do it to give the top and bottom most views vertical spacing constraints to the top and bottom of the superview, respectively. Add a view, I usually use a UILabel with no text, in between all the views you have stacked vertically, and give them equal heights to one another. Give one of those "spacer" views a fixed height, but edit it so its priority is less than 1000 (which means it's not mandatory that it be satisfied). Then add spacing constraints between each nearest neighbor above and below each "real" view and the "spacers", so that you have all the views from top to bottom connected together by vertical spacing constraints. When the screen size changes, the only thing that can change will be the height of the "spacers", since the priority is less than 1000, and all other constraints are mandatory. My constraints look like this:
The labels each have the standard (8 point) spacing to the "real" views above and below them. The top and bottom views should have whatever spacing you want to the screen edges.
Apple have now posted a document which describes the officially-endorsed approach to solving this problem:
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/Conceptual/AutolayoutPG/AutoLayoutbyExample/AutoLayoutbyExample.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010853-CH5-SW8
Summary of the approach: insert spacer views between your controls, which have equal width/height (as applicable) constraints.