AutoLayout with hidden UIViews?

Question

I feel like it\'s a fairly common paradigm to show/hide UIViews, most often UILabels, depending on business logic. My question is, what is the best

Answer 1

In this case, I map the height of the Author label to an appropriate IBOutlet:

@property (retain, nonatomic) IBOutlet NSLayoutConstraint* authorLabelHeight;

and when I set the height of the constraint to 0.0f, we preserve the "padding", because the Play button's height allows for it.

cell.authorLabelHeight.constant = 0; //Hide 
cell.authorLabelHeight.constant = 44; //Show