[morganb180]

Thanks - as it happens I'm about 3 months in to learning Objective-c and iOS development. This is super helpful, as many of the tutorials online are dated. Right now I'm working through the Ray Wenderlich stuff which is really good, at least as far as I can tell.

w/r/t using the visual XIB/Storyboard interface vs. coding the views, I've found early on that while the nibs and storyboards make it easy to prototype and visually hook stuff up, looking at some of the apps I admire (apps like Clear, Rise, etc.), makes it pretty clear that I will need to code these views up myself to achieve some of those interactions. Unless I'm missing something (which of course I am, I'm a NOOB) I don't see how most of those can be done right from the nibs.

edit: also, if anyone has any other recommended links/resources, I'd love any recommendations. Thanks.

[MaxGabriel]

Eh, I wouldn't be so sure. I remember from the WWDC 2012 presentation that the iPhoto team talks about how they used xibs in their workflow, and iPhoto is an extremely impressive app. There's also the fact that you can do alot of setup with a xib or storyboard, and then do relational layout programmatically.

[objclxt]

iPhoto is an interesting one: the layout is done programatically, but the xibs are used to load the images. For example, the brush panel is all animated and arranged in code, but xibs are used to hold the brush PNG images since it reduces the code burden (of manually creating the UIImageViews, etc etc).

[morganb180]

Cool, thanks for the insight Max. Like I said, I have a ton to learn. Will definitely dig in more on this. But you're right, iPhoto is really well done.