MJGLayoutKit is a layout framework for iOS which gives options for automatically laying out views.
An example of what MJGLayoutKit can do is shown below where the layout is automatically reflowed when the size of the image is changed. In this layout there is 1 vertical layout, 1 horizontal layout and 1 frame layout. The different colours show the different views/layouts indicating how padding and margins can be set.
In this example, the green view is a horizontal layout containing a frame layout on the left and an empty view on the right. The frame layout is set to fill all remaining space and contains three empty views (blue, orange and purple). The empty view on the right is set to be a fixed width and fill height. The horizontal layout is then within a vertical layout along with the image at the top. The image is set to wrap its content (i.e. take up just as much room as is required by the image) and the horizontal layout is set to fill both width and height.
MJGLayoutKit uses the 2-clause BSD license. So you should be free to use it pretty much however you want. Contact me if you require further information.
Copyright (c) 2012 Matt Galloway. All rights reserved.
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This project uses ARC.
MJGLayoutKit is written and maintained by Matt Galloway http://iphone.galloway.me.uk.
My motivation for creating this framework was that I liked the way Android did its UI layout where you can define your views to layout horizontally or vertically, or stacked on top of each other and the view subsytem will automatically flow your layout for you according to how you have defined it.
This level of flexibility is not generally necessary on iOS because we know the size of the screen but for a certain project I had a requirement to be able to dynamically change the layout of a certain view having been given a description of the format coming from a web API. This is to be cross platform so we couldn't really hard code sizes.
The project requirement turned into this project. And as they say, the rest is history.
MJGLayoutKit is currently under active development and is not ready for use properly yet!