iOS UI Development Best Practices
Article Summary
Valerii Che from Bumble's engineering team reveals why they ditched Storyboards entirely. Their code-first approach handles weekly feature releases without breaking existing functionality.
The Badoo/Bumble iOS team shares their battle-tested UI development practices for maintaining a massive dating app. With constant feature releases, they've optimized for code maintainability and team velocity over visual editors.
Key Takeaways
- Code-only UI beats XIBs: clearer reviews, easier merges, no XML parsing
- Layout anchors replace frame calculations and error-prone constraint strings
- Component separation enables visual testing with stub view models
- UI/logic split into separate projects accelerates parallel development
Critical Insight
Building iOS UI in code with strict component separation and MVVM enables faster feature delivery and easier testing at scale.
