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Do you guys use the interface builder or is this all programmatic (the initial view setup, not the updates).

All the cool stuff is fully programmatic. I think right now it's just the onboarding screens that are still using interface builder - they're simple and mostly remain static.

One lesson though: do not use interface builder for table view cells, just don't. Cell reuse is tricky to get right as is and you should take the time upfront to make it all work programmatically.

Sweet, thanks for the advice. I assume you mean don't have an IB file for your UITableViewCell subclass?

Exactly, there is just generally no need for it. It can be ok for prototyping because of the easy autolayout flags but at the end it just made sense to do the cells programmatically.

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