Re: Auto Layout Problems
Re: Auto Layout Problems
- Subject: Re: Auto Layout Problems
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 10:56:35 -0700
On Aug 27, 2015, at 9:46 AM, Thomas Wetmore < email@hidden> wrote:
I have also been disappointed on how much difficulty I have had when incorporating new Apple technologies.
In the case of Swift, I think it’s mostly just that it’s new (and still developing fast) and quite different from what we’re used to. Apple has done a great job documenting it — I remember being blown away at WWDC last year by how good the Swift books were.
In some other areas, like auto-layout, Apple’s made adoption harder than it needs to be by not documenting it well, or by hiding the documentation (in a sub-basement behind a door reading “Beware Of The Leopard”.) The Xcode IDE documentation is wretched, I might even say “insulting”; super-complex things like build settings are given one page with a screenshot and some superficial one-liners about what the buttons do. Similarly-complex GUI tools in other domains like audio or illustration get big tomes of documentation, but the Xcode IDE (I’m not talking about the SDKs!) has basically a pamphlet.
—Jens |
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