UserInterface 0.5.0

UserInterface 0.5.0

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Maintained by Christoffer Winterkvist.

UserInterface 0.5.0

UserInterface

CI Status Version Carthage Compatible License Platform Swift

Description

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UserInteface is a collection of convenience extensions specifically tailored to building user interfaces in Swift. It acts as your faithful sidekick boosting your superpowers up to eleven. It covers things like registering cells on your reusable components, setting up constraints without reinventing the wheel and making stack views easier to build and maintain when building them in code. The framework does not aim to solve everything, it aims to fix the most common hurdles based on personal experience.

Features

  • 🍭Packed with goodies for table & collection views.
  • 🏎Write less and do more.
  • 📐Tamed constraints without reinventing the wheel.
  • 📱iOS support.
  • 💻macOS support.
  • 📺tvOS support.

Usage

The methods described below use UITableView as the example, it works the same way for UICollectionView's. It has some additional properties for collection view layouts. To make life even easier, the methods also have macOS equivalent so that you don't need to context switch when writing macOS code.

Setting up and registering cells on reusable components

import UserInterface
let dataSource = DataSource()
let tableView = UITableView(dataSource: dataSource, register: Cell.self)

Dequeuing cells in your data source

import UserInterface
func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
  let model = model(at: indexPath) // Retrieves the model from an array.
  return tableView.dequeue(Cell.self, with: model(at: indexPath), for: indexPath) { view, model in
    view.textLabel?.text = model.name
  }
}

Setting up constraints

NSLayoutConstraint.constrain(activate: true) {
  customView.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: centerXAnchor),
  customView.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: centerYAnchor)
}

Pinning a custom view to its super view using constraints

superview.addSubview(customView, pin: true, insets: .init(top: 0, left: 30, bottom: 0, right: -30))

Adding multiple views

view.addSubviews(view1, view2, view3)

Setting up buttons with title and a type.

let button = UIButton(title: "A", type: .system)

Creating image views with content mode.

let imageView = UIImageView(image: image, contentMode: .scaleAspectFit)

Creating labels

let label = UILabel(text: "A",
                    font: font,
                    textColor: color,
                    textAlignment: .center,
                    numberOfLines: 2)

Installation

UserInterface is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'UserInterface'

UserInterface is also available through Carthage. To install just write into your Cartfile:

github "zenangst/UserInterface"

UserInterface can also be installed manually. Just download and drop Sources folders in your project.

Author

Contributing

We would love you to contribute to UserInterface, check the CONTRIBUTING file for more info.

License

UserInterface is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.