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- What is iOS safe area?
- When designing for screens What is the safe area?
- What are the options for laying out UI on iOS?
What is iOS safe area?
The safe area represents the portion of your screen that is unobscured by bars and other operating system based content. Safe area is pre-defined by iOS across all Apple devices and is present in Android devices as well.
When designing for screens What is the safe area?
Set safe zone width to 960 pixels.
The width should not go above 1003 pixels. However, it does not mean one has to always design at the edge of the page. A width of 960 is a good round number divisible by 10 and 12 which can be very practical for visual designers.
What are the options for laying out UI on iOS?
With the UIKit framework, there are two options available for creating the UI for iOS apps: Storyboard and programmatically. Both methods offer several advantages.
