iOS Boilerplate

An Xcode project designed to speed up development of new projects. Seems like there are quite a few things in it I can take inspiration from for my own code.

What is it?

This project is inspired on HTML5 boilerplate.

  • It is intended to provide a base of code to start with
  • It is not intended to be a framework
  • It is intended to be modified and extended by the developer to fit their needs
  • It includes solid third-party libraries if needed to not reinvent the wheel

Via: Simon Teppett


iOS Development – sizeToFit:

Jérémy Chatard explains the intricacies of UIView’s sizeToFit: with a concrete example of how it should be used to lay out a bunch of subviews stacked vertically. He makes use of recursion in his solution to solve the problem of “If you want to lay out a parent view, you first need to lay out


Funny Article About Android vs iOS

Made me chuckle – an April Fool’s article by Ray Wenderlich – Why I’m Ditching iOS and Becoming an Android Developer.