Blind programmer: designing an interface in Xcode without being able to visually position UI elements

Question

I am fairly new to Mac and iOS programming, and have recently decided to get really serious about developing applications for both platforms. The first step I took was to regist

Answer 1

This discussion will inevitably go off-topic, but here are my ideas:

1. Consider specializing in something else. There are so many things a programmer can work on. Many, if not most, programmers can enjoy long, successful careers without ever having to arrange any UI elements. Frankly, I don't think that this is particularly exciting, unless you have more of a designer mindset.

2. Alternatively, whatever tool you are using to arrange the elements, this layout is probably saved to some file, probably in some XML-like fashion. Find this file and edit it.

3. If you want to get really good at arranging UI elements, consider first hiring several people to do multiple arrangements for you. Then analyze the numbers and come up with some kind of formula that will be a good heuristic for such an arrangement. Or perhaps somebody has already come up with this kind of formula.