TinyConstraints alternatives and similar libraries
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Masonry
Harness the power of AutoLayout NSLayoutConstraints with a simplified, chainable and expressive syntax. Supports iOS and OSX Auto Layout -
PureLayout
The ultimate API for iOS & OS X Auto Layout — impressively simple, immensely powerful. Objective-C and Swift compatible. -
MyLinearLayout
MyLayout is a powerful iOS UI framework implemented by Objective-C. It integrates the functions with Android Layout,iOS AutoLayout,SizeClass, HTML CSS float and flexbox and bootstrap. So you can use LinearLayout,RelativeLayout,FrameLayout,TableLayout,FlowLayout,FloatLayout,PathLayout,GridLayout,LayoutSizeClass to build your App 自动布局 UIView UITableView UICollectionView RTL -
PinLayout
Fast Swift Views layouting without auto layout. No magic, pure code, full control and blazing fast. Concise syntax, intuitive, readable & chainable. [iOS/macOS/tvOS/CALayer] -
FlexLayout
FlexLayout adds a nice Swift interface to the highly optimized facebook/yoga flexbox implementation. Concise, intuitive & chainable syntax. -
Luminous
Luminous provides you a lot of information about the system and a lot of handy methods to quickly get useful data on the iOS platform. -
MisterFusion
MisterFusion is Swift DSL for AutoLayout. It is the extremely clear, but concise syntax, in addition, can be used in both Swift and Objective-C. Support Safe Area and Size Class. -
QuickLayout
Written in pure Swift, QuickLayout offers a simple and easy way to manage Auto Layout in code. -
ManualLayout
✂ Easy to use and flexible library for manually laying out views and layers for iOS and tvOS. Supports AsyncDisplayKit. -
MondrianLayout
🏗 A way to build AutoLayout rapidly than using InterfaceBuilder(XIB, Storyboard) in iOS. -
Framezilla
DISCONTINUED. Elegant library that wraps working with frames with a nice chaining syntax. -
BBLocationManager
A Location Manager for easily implementing location services & geofencing in iOS. Ready for iOS 11.
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README
TinyConstraints is the syntactic sugar that makes Auto Layout sweeter for human use.
Features
- [X] Pure Swift 5 sweetness.
- [X] Everything you can do with Auto Layout, but shorter.
- [X] Constraints are active by default.
- [X] 100% compatible with other Auto Layout code.
- [X] Optionally store your constraints.
- [X] Set constraint priorities upon creation.
- [X] Constrain directly to the superview.
- [X] Stack views together with one line of code.
- [X] No need to set
translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints
becauseTinyConstraints
does it for you.
Examples
Edges
Attaching a view to its superview with NSLayoutConstraint
:
NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
view.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.topAnchor, constant: 0),
view.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.leadingAnchor, constant: 0),
view.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.bottomAnchor, constant: 0),
view.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.trailingAnchor, constant: 0)
])
with TinyConstraints
:
view.edgesToSuperview()
or:
view.edgesToSuperview(insets: .top(10) + .left(10))
Center
Constraining the center of a view to its superview with NSLayoutConstraint
:
NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
view.centerXAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.centerXAnchor, constant: 0)
view.centerYAnchor.constraint(equalTo: superview.centerYAnchor, constant: 0)
])
with TinyConstraints
:
view.center(in: superview)
or:
view.center(in: superview, offset: CGPoint(x: 10, y: 10))
Basic Use
Typealiases
TinyConstraints
gives you convenient and tiny typealiases for handling constraints.
Constraint
=NSLayoutConstraint
Constraints
=[NSLayoutConstraint]
Equal and Unequal Anchors
This constraints the top-anchor
of the view to the top-anchor
of the superview:
view.top(to: superview)
This constraints the top-anchor
of firstView
to the bottom-anchor
of secondView
:
firstView.topToBottom(of: secondView)
Constrain to Superview
Often you need to constrain a view to it's superview, with TinyConstraints you can do this super easy:
view.edgesToSuperview()
Or only one edge:
view.topToSuperview()
Or you can attach all edges except one, like this:
view.edgesToSuperview(excluding: .bottom)
Relation and Priority
For almost all constraints you can set the relation
and priority
properties. The default relation is .equal
and the default priority is .required
:
container.width(150, relation: .equalOrLess, priority: .high)
Storing Constraints
Here we create a set of inactive constraints and store these to our property:
let constraints = view.size(CGSize(width: 100, height: 100), isActive: false)
Activation and Deactivation
Besides the default NSLayoutConstraint
activation, TinyConstraints
also provides a way to activate a set of constraints:
constraints.activate()
You can also do this in an animation:
oldConstraints.deActivate()
constraints.activate()
UIViewPropertyAnimator(duration: 1, dampingRatio: 0.4) {
self.layoutIfNeeded()
}.startAnimation()
Animating Constraint Constants
Here we add a height constraint to a view, store it and animate it later:
let height = view.height(100)
height.constant = 200
UIViewPropertyAnimator(duration: 1, dampingRatio: 0.4) {
self.layoutIfNeeded()
}.startAnimation()
Stack
Stack provides a way of constraining views together in a superview:
let views = [logo, title, description]
superview.stack(views, axis: .vertical, spacing: 10)
Find these examples and more in the Example Project.
Installation
CocoaPods
TinyConstraints is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:
pod "TinyConstraints"
Carthage
TinyConstraints is available through Carthage. To install it, simply add the following line to your Cartfile:
github "roberthein/TinyConstraints"
Swift Package Manager
TinyConstraints is available through Swift Package Manager. To install
it, in Xcode 11.0 or later select File
> Swift Packages
> Add Package Dependency...
and add TinyConstraints repository URL:
https://github.com/roberthein/TinyConstraints.git
Tutorials
Here are some video tutorials made by Alex Nagy.
Suggestions or feedback?
Feel free to create a pull request, open an issue or find me on Twitter.