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by saagarjha 2756 days ago
I'm primarily an iOS developer (though, I've started looking into Android recently), so my point of view will be skewed towards that platform. If you're trying to write an iOS app, you probably want to expose AutoLayout, or at the very least the API provided by UIStackView. Plus, you will need to handle things like the navigation hierarchy, which on iOS does a lot of layout-related things for you.
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hduden 2756 days ago
It is an interesting thought to also use the native layout system on each platform. It might be challenging to provide an abstraction for the native layout that behaves consistently on all platforms, though.

Can you elaborate on why you feel AutoLayout support is needed? If Boden had a layout system of comparable power, would that solve this issue?

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saagarjha 2756 days ago
> Can you elaborate on why you feel AutoLayout support is needed?

That's simply how most apps are designed these days, since it makes it easy to support the ever-growing list of device sizes that iOS apps need to support.

> If Boden had a layout system of comparable power, would that solve this issue?

Sure, but you might need to keep in mind that iOS developers are used to using AutoLayout and need to learn how to do things in your new layout system.

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