To use interface builder or not to use interface builder

[bighugedave]

Hello everyone, just doing some studying with the iPhone SDK, still pretty new to it all, I understand Objective-C just fine, but I'm wondering if most people use Interface Builder when building their apps for iPhone/iPad, or are there a lot of you more experienced developers that prefer not to use it, and just code everything manually?

The reason I ask is the book I'm studying with doesn't use IB very much at all, whereas the previous book I was studying from used it extensively. I actually prefer not using it, IB confuses me a lot.

Is it crazy to do the programming by hand? Is there really a huge benefit from using IB for everything, or is it just one of those "personal preference" things?

Thanks for your input, I don't want to learn to do things one way and later find out that most experienced developers do things differently, and I should too.

Kind regards,

David

[Paul10]

I saw a very similar post another day:

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/ip...grramming.html

[dany_dev]

for static interface i use IB, for orientation i prefer to use code (no autosize), , and for dynamic interface (ex: load X buttons, 4 for line) must be used code. So depend on what are you doing. You can use IB? so use it!, you can't? write code!

[bighugedave]

Originally Posted by Paul10

I saw a very similar post another day:

http://www.iphonedevsdk.com/forum/ip...grramming.html

Ah, thanks for the link to that post. I know there's not really a "right way" to do things, I'm just so new to iPhone/Mac development I wondered what all you experienced developers do.

Thanks for the link, and the comments to those who responded!