A talk about the advantages and disadvantages of iOS storyboards.

1. Storyboards
Pros & Cons

2. Where I started

3. You'll want to
remove Interface
Builder from the
project to see how all
objects are created.
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Jonathan Zdziarski

4. iOS 5 - Storyboards

5. Apple can't be wrong.
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Dominik Hauser, 2012

6. So I used it
...

7. So I used it wrong
https://github.com/dasdom/happy

8. Fast forward - 2016
Today in my job I'm working on a project with 280+
Storyboards. Which is also wrong.

9. Fast forward - 2016
Today in my job I'm working on a project with 280+
Storyboards. But we are working on it.

10. Pros & Cons

11. Pros

12. Pros - What You See
Is (Kind Of) What
You Get

13. Pros - Preview

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

15. Pros - Less code,
(hopefully) less bugs

16. Pros - See navigation
flow

17. Pros - (Some) help
in fixing constraints
errors

18. Pros - Prototyping

19. Cons

20. Cons - Context shift

21. Cons - Conflicts

22. Cons - No git diff

23. Cons - Options all
over the place

24. Cons - Constraints
harder to glance

25. Cons - Controller
based (no view reuse)

26. Cons - Performance

27. Cons - String based

28. Cons - Only ok with MVC
MVP, MVVM, VIPER

29. Cons - Some UI
elements missing

30. Cons - There is more
4 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

31. How to move

32. No automatic solution

33. Yet...

34. https://github.com/dasdom/Storyboard2CodeApp

35. Demo

36. Thank you!
Dominik Hauser, @swiftpainless