Prototyping iOS Applications with Storyboards

jensravens.com / Code Europe 2016

Prototyping withStoryboards

Jens Ravens

http://jensravens.com


A Reintroduction to Xcode’s most hated feature.



Who is this guy?



Who is this guy?(aka the shameless self promotion part)



Jens Ravens

Developer at nerdgeschoss, a mobile first dev agency for sophisticated software. We help startups and medium businesses to build awesome stuff.



Jens Ravens

50% iOS / macOS using Swift 50% Web / API using Ruby on Rails



Jens Ravens

Also I blog about Swift stuff on jensravens.com and organize the monthly swift.berlin meetup.




What I am going to talk about…

the basics of Storyboards, Auto Layout and modern UI techniques

custom views and subclasses with IBDesignable

some tips for everyday development

why Xcode is a great tool for prototyping



Demo: Autolayout Basics



Demo: App Structure



Demo: Easy Sliders



Demo: Custom Buttons



Demo: Smoth Splash Screen Transition



Why developers don’t use storyboards




Storyboards are bad for teams.




Storyboards are bad for teams.

It’s just xml under the hood and thanks to storyboard references merge conflicts are rare




Styles are hard to maintain consistently across the project.




Styles are hard to maintain consistently across the project.

Custom subclasses allow for globally applied styles including a visual preview.




Interface builder sucks for auto layout.




Interface builder sucks for auto layout.

It got a lot better. Give it another try.




I am faster in code.




I am faster in code.

No. You’re not.



Questions?



More Ressources

https://github.com/IBAnimatable/IBAnimatable

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2015/407/


https://github.com/IBAnimatable/IBAnimatable


Thank you.

Jens Ravens / @jensravens
