Tutorial on NOT using Interface Builder for iPhone GUI design?

Question

Does anyone know of a good tutorial on iPhone GUI design using just code and not Interface Builder?

I am new to iPhone development, and I wanted to better understand

Answer 1

Keep in mind that IB can speed up your development, and prevent you from hard coding dimensions and coordinates into your app. It's also a useful tool when it comes time to localize your app.

If you are a beginner, you should familiarize yourself with more interesting SDKs, rather than trying to figure out how a UIButton draws a frame and sets its font. You can always delve deeper into each IB-assisted framework, later when you've mastered OBJ-C, and developed some apps.

There is a reason why IB exists, just as there is a reason why Xcode exists, and we're not all typing "make myApp -flags x y z -opts a b c..." or even calling gcc directly. There is a lot to be learned from hand building a project from the command line, but really, it should come second to actually developing an app.