I come from design. Using Auto layout to me is like trying to understand Klingon without any previous knowledge of that language. Auto layout defies all logic of good understanding.
I have this situation:
An image view that is 400x400 pixels to be shown portrait and landscape. This image has to be shown with the aspect ratio of 1:1 and adjust itself to be smaller when the device is landscape.
The "image editing" logic says I have to apply the following constraints:
- 1:1 aspect ratio
- leading/trailing of 10 points.
- center Y to view
This works on portrait but when I rotate the device to landscape, the image will expand to respect the leading/trailing of 10 points and it will be clipped top/bottom.
Then I thought, I can add a top/bottom constraint to the view >= 10 pt... nope. The image is stretched horizontally and does not respect the aspect ratio of 1:1.
Then I changed the leading/trailing to >=10 and now the image has this:
- 1:1 aspect ratio
- leading/trailing of >=10 points.
- top/bottom of >=10 points.
This is working but Xcode is complaining that the image view needs constraints for Y position or height!
For me, Y is defined perfectly based on the leading/trailing/top/bottom constraints and I cannot define height because each device this runs will have one height.
For God's sake. How to solve that?
