StoryboardsPros & Cons

Where I started

You'll want to remove Interface Builder from the

project to see how all objects are created.

1Jonathan Zdziarski

iOS 5 - Storyboards

Apple can't be wrong.1

Dominik Hauser, 2012

So I used it

...

So I used it wrong

https://github.com/dasdom/happy

Fast forward - 2016Today in my job I'm working on a project with 280+

Storyboards. Which is also wrong.

Fast forward - 2016Today in my job I'm working on a project with 280+

Storyboards. But we are working on it.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Pros - What You See Is (Kind Of) What

You Get

Pros - Preview

Pros - Simulate context (left to right, longer text)

Pros - Less code, (hopefully) less bugs

Pros - See navigation flow

Pros - (Some) help in fixing constraints

errors

Pros - Prototyping

Cons

Cons - Context shift

Cons - Conflicts

Cons - No git diff

Cons - Options all over the place

Cons - Constraints harder to glance

Cons - Controller based (no view reuse)

Cons - Performance

Cons - String based

Cons - Only ok with MVCMVP, MVVM, VIPER

Cons - Some UI elements missing

Cons - There is more4 Problems with Xcode betas

4 Hard to refactor

4 Another tool with its own bugs

4 Dependency injection difficult

4 Cannot comment out for experiments

How to move

No automatic solution

Yet...

https://github.com/dasdom/Storyboard2CodeApp

Demo

Thank you!Dominik Hauser, @swiftpainless