What is best Practices to use AutoLayout?

Question

Since iOS7, I have been searching for standard GUI design pattern.

In my previous two apps, I unchecked autolayout and used autosizing.

It usually looks like this

Main View looks like below in SIZE INSPECTOR.

Currently I am making two xibs, iPhone4 iPhone5 and use UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin & UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin along with -64 in iOS6/7 Delta.

For Inner/Child Views, I usually Keep UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleTopMargin and UIViewAutoresizingFlexibleLeftMargin and -64 in iOS6/7 Delta to work fine in iOS6.

It give almost perfect result, but sometime I need to start View from start of xib (0,0) but sometime from (64,0) to show Views look like starting from upper most border of View while running.

It makes me confused a lot to understand what is standard way to design XIB, so that we can use single XIB for iPhone4 and iPhone5 and on both platforms.

Thanks

Answer 1

Personally, I find that using Interface Builder with AutoLayout is not very user friendly and that it quickly became messy.

I prefer do all AutoLayout stuff programmatically. To avoid lot of boilerplate, I use the Masonry library which is quite amazing.