April 2019 Universal City, California. It’s past 2 AM and the silence is abruptly shattered by my car dashing out of the parking structure. The windshield immediately fogs up as I enter into the night and turn onto Cahuenga Blvd. There isn’t a car in sight. …

A friendly introduction to SnapKit and it’s benefits over adding standard programmatic constraints. Written while using XCode 12.4 / SnapKit: 5.0.1 Full project can be found on my Github I. Overview Snapkit is, “… a DSL to make Auto Layout easy on both iOS and OS X.” In other words, it’s a…

Programmatic constraints is a way of laying out and constraining views as opposed to using Storyboards. While more intimidating at first, programmatic constraints can be a faster way to create user interfaces. It just takes some practice. When creating a new Xcode project, there isn’t a nice preset dropdown option…

I have been practicing programmatic UI constraints and decided to test my current abilities by building something familiar from scratch. Two coffees later, I landed on the iOS Discord app. Full project source code can be found on my github Breakdown The messaging screen of Discord can be broken down into…