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Storybard2CodeApp

Mac app that converts an iOS storyboard into code. Work in progress.

Goal

The ultimate goal is to be able to convert any iOS storyboard and convert it to code that is usable as a replacement of that storyboard without modification.

Progress

The project is in pre-alpha status. If I had to give a number of the progress, I would say it's about 50% done. But keep in mind, the last 20% of any project consume 80% of the total time. ;)

Supported (== most properties supported)

• [x] UIView
• [x] UIButton
• [x] UILabel
• [x] UISlider
• [x] UITextField
• [x] UISegmentedControl (images not supported yet)
• [x] UIScrollView
• [x] UITableView
• [x] UIImageView
• [x] UITableViewCell
• [x] UIStackView
• [x] SafeAreaGuides
• [ ] IBActions
• [ ] Segues
• [ ] Size Classes
• [ ] UICollectionView
• [ ] UICollectionViewCell

Examples

The following gifs show examples. The presentation switches between the view created from a storyboard and the view created from the generated code. You can see the switch because right now the colours aren't not perfect. So further down the road those gifs will become images. :)

Generated Code

The storyboard scene

results in this code:

//
//  Created by Dominik Hauser on 17.02.19.
//  Copyright (c) 2019 dasdom. All rights reserved.
//
//  Generated by Storyboard2Code

import UIKit

class LoginView: UIView {
  let label: UILabel
  let usernameTextfield: UITextField
  let textInputStackView: UIStackView
  let passwordTextfield: UITextField
  let mainStackView: UIStackView
  let loginButton: UIButton

  override init(frame: CGRect) {
    label = UILabel()
label.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
label.textAlignment = .center
label.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail
label.text = "Please log in"

    usernameTextfield = UITextField()
usernameTextfield.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
usernameTextfield.borderStyle = .roundedRect
usernameTextfield.placeholder = "Username"
usernameTextfield.textAlignment = .natural
usernameTextfield.minimumFontSize = 17
    usernameTextfield.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14)

    textInputStackView = UIStackView()
textInputStackView.isOpaque = false
textInputStackView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
textInputStackView.axis = .vertical
textInputStackView.spacing = 3

    passwordTextfield = UITextField()
passwordTextfield.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
passwordTextfield.borderStyle = .roundedRect
passwordTextfield.placeholder = "Password"
passwordTextfield.textAlignment = .natural
passwordTextfield.minimumFontSize = 17
    passwordTextfield.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 14)

    mainStackView = UIStackView()
mainStackView.isOpaque = false
mainStackView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
mainStackView.axis = .vertical
mainStackView.spacing = 10

loginButton = UIButton(type: .system)
loginButton.isOpaque = false
loginButton.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
loginButton.contentHorizontalAlignment = .center
loginButton.contentVerticalAlignment = .center
loginButton.titleLabel?.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingMiddle
loginButton.setTitle("Login", for: .normal)

    super.init(frame: frame)

    backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 1.000, green: 0.800, blue: 0.400, alpha: 1.000)

    textInputStackView.addArrangedSubview(usernameTextfield)
    textInputStackView.addArrangedSubview(passwordTextfield)
    mainStackView.addArrangedSubview(label)
    mainStackView.addArrangedSubview(textInputStackView)
    mainStackView.addArrangedSubview(loginButton)

    addSubview(mainStackView)

    NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
      mainStackView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo:safeAreaLayoutGuide.topAnchor, constant:20),
      mainStackView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo:safeAreaLayoutGuide.leadingAnchor, constant:20),
      safeAreaLayoutGuide.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo:mainStackView.trailingAnchor, constant:20),
      ])
}

required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
}

extension ViewController {
override func loadView() {
view = LoginView()
}
}

Note: The indentation is not completely implemented yet.

Usage

The generated code looks best if all the elements in the storyboard have a label because this is used for the name of the element. You can set the label in the identity inspector:

If the label is missing, the internal id in the storyboard of that element is used.

Author

@dasdom

Licence

MIT

See LICENCE.md