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Swift tutorial: Collection view layout with flexible cell sizes

· 6 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on January 29, 2018

flexible cell sizes There are many use cases where you want your app to display collections of UI elements with flexible cell sizes, that render compactly on the screen, taking up as much space as possible. Unfortunately, achieving this in Swift is not straightforward and having collection views dealing with cells of different heights and widths can be tricky. In this tutorial, you'll be able to learn how you can create the layout pictured below (which is a shot of our WordPress iPhone App Template):

Share content to Facebook and Twitter in Swift 5 – SLComposeViewController

· 3 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on June 19, 2019

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We're currently working on an iOS template that lets you create an iPhone app for your WordPress blog in a matter of minutes. While implementing this, we had to come up with a mechanism that allows users to share content to Facebook and Twitter. This is an important functionality for a blogger since everyone wants their content to be easily spread around the Internet. That's when we discovered SLComposeViewController.

Auto Layout: Should you use Interface Builder for building your iOS app?

· 6 min read
Full Stack Developer
Last updated on April 11, 2017

By introducing Auto Layout, Apple made a lot of progress in their attempt to help iOS developers in building their iOS app's user interfaces. The Interface Builder got a lot better, the Auto Layout was integrated into it, and more recently UIStackViews are gaining a lot of traction and popularity. Having many different approaches of laying out views with Auto Layout, makes it necessary to decide upfront, on a consistent pattern to be followed when building your iOS app.