Auto Layout Demystified

I'm a huge fan of PureLayout over using Storyboard or calling the AutoLayout APIs directly.

https://github.com/PureLayout/PureLayout

This really isn't the confusing part about Autolayout. The confusing part is the millions of unclear ways to accomplish a given layout. Or figuring out how to make a scroll view content height dynamic. Or move/create anything dynamically, really.

You have to bring in third party libraries to make it easier to work with the API programmatically and then pray to the constraint solver gods that your changing a height constraint constant and adding 4 new constraints into the view hierarchy doesn't throw the most useless error ever seen.

It's just unpleasant.