I have about 3 years of iOS experience and I have a love hate relationship with storyboards.
I think the introduction of auto-layout has made it them more powerful , but also a bit confusing.
Apple really needs to work on the UX in interface builder. I should ideally be able to see most of the constraints at a single glance rather than clicking on each every view to find out how it relates to the views around it.
I can create UIs reasonably fast now , after mastering all the tricks and UI shortcuts.
However as your parent mentioned , it is a fact that Android developers are able to create UIs faster. I know this since our team works on the same features on both platforms.
It used to be that Android used to really suck , but for simple standard UIs , mocking up something is much faster now on Android. And their layout system while not as powerful as Autolayout is enough most of the time and easier to grok.
The only thing they still struggle with are animations and device / OS fragmentation.
I think the introduction of auto-layout has made it them more powerful , but also a bit confusing.
Apple really needs to work on the UX in interface builder. I should ideally be able to see most of the constraints at a single glance rather than clicking on each every view to find out how it relates to the views around it.
I can create UIs reasonably fast now , after mastering all the tricks and UI shortcuts.
However as your parent mentioned , it is a fact that Android developers are able to create UIs faster. I know this since our team works on the same features on both platforms.
It used to be that Android used to really suck , but for simple standard UIs , mocking up something is much faster now on Android. And their layout system while not as powerful as Autolayout is enough most of the time and easier to grok.
The only thing they still struggle with are animations and device / OS fragmentation.