[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.