UIView+AutoLayoutView

About

A small Objective-C category on UIView that creates a UIView object that is ready to be used for programmatic AutoLayout. This class is useful for those of us who do a lot of our AutoLayout definitions outside of xibs and storyboards.

Changelog (v1.0.2)

• Explicitly imported UIKit
• Added Swift documentation to README

Installation Instructions

Manual

Simply drop the UIView+AutoLayoutView folder into your project, and reference UIView+AutoLayoutView.h in the classes that need access to the information it provides.

The Interface

@interface UIView (AutoLayoutView)

+ (instancetype)newAutoLayoutView;
+ (void)updateLayoutForView:(UIView *)view;

@end

The Implementation

+ (instancetype)newAutoLayoutView
{
    UIView *view = [self new];
    [view setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints:NO];

    return view;
}

+ (void)updateLayoutForView:(UIView *)view
{
    [view setNeedsLayout];
    [view layoutIfNeeded];
}

@end

Usage

Objective-C

// Create an AutoLaoyut view
MyView *myView = [MyView autoLayoutNew]; // Creates a new progrmmatic-AutoLayout ready object

// Update the view after the constraints are set
[UIView updateLayoutForView:myView];

Swift

// Create an AutoLaoyut view
let myView = MyView.autoLayoutNew() // Creates a new progrmmatic-AutoLayout ready object

// Update the view after the constraints are set
UIView.updateLayoutForView(myView);

Created and Maintained by

Arthur Ariel Sabintsev