Xcode 5 Finally Makes Interface Builder a Viable Option for Teams

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by ehamberg • 13 years ago

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scrumper• 13 years ago

This is a welcome change. I'm interested to see if storyboards are now team-friendly too.

lukeredpath• 13 years ago

They always have been. The new XIB format is the same as the current Storyboard format.

It doesn't completely prevent merge conflicts though.

millerm• 13 years ago

I still don't know why storyboards (all views and segues) are implemented in a single file. I talked to some Apple developers at WWDC last year and this year about the issue. I explained the possibility of actually saving controller/view bindings in separate files (umm, xibs) so you wouldn't get all these conflicts. The storyboard itself would only be a graph of the xibs and their segues to other xibs and whatnot (position on screen in the editor or whatever). A lot less of a chance of a conflict. I'm just giving a high level overview of what we had discussed. I still think it could be implemented better. Break that bad boy up! It should be in a bundle.

Xcode 5 Finally Makes Interface Builder a Viable Option for Teams

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