Add IBMeasure and create XCFramwork

New Features:

1. IBMeasure Namespace:

   • Introduced the IBMeasure namespace for tools that assist in measuring distances between views.
   • Added methods:
     • printVerticalDistance
     • printHorizontalDistance

2. IBDebug Enhancements:

   • Added a new argument, borderColor, to the IBDebug tool.
   • Updated the static method:
     • showFrames(of:borderColor:includeGivenView:includeUIKitPrivateViews:) to include the new argument.

3. GitHub Actions Workflow:

   • Added a new workflow, swift-create-sign-upload-xcframework, which builds, signs, and uploads an XCFramework for the release.created trigger.

1.8.0

What's Changed

• Split DSL and Kit API to separate Targets by @Adobels in #10

Enhencements:

DSL:

• Remove auto-naming of constraints generated in iBAttributes.
• Add support for the ShouldBeArchived property of NSLayoutConstraint.

Kit:

• Add a UIViewController extension ibSetView to replace the view of the controller.
• Add UIViewController extensions ibEmbed / ibUnembed to add view controllers and their views to container views.
• Rename UIViewDebug to IBDebug.
• IBDebug.showFrames receives default values for includeGivenView and includeUIKitPrivateViews, which are used rarely.

Full Changelog: 1.7.0...1.8.0

Enhancements to DSL Optimization, UIKit, and Previews Add-Ons

DSL

• Optimize usage of @MainActor to protect constraints to be applied
• Add tests for UIViewDSL when working from multithreads.

Debugger

• Add showColors to set backgrounds of subviews to random colors and make them easier to spot.

UIKit

• Add IBView and IBControl to avoid writing init methods when creating views
• Add convenience classes like IBScrollView, IBPreviewLabel
• Add ibSetAsRootView to set views as rootviews of a given controller
• Add methods to work with container views ibAdd(child:to) and ibRemove(child:) on UIViewController

Previews

• Add FreeForm Representables for UIView and UIViewController
• ibConstraints moved from UIView extension to standalone function

Project

• Add SwiftLint
• Reorganize files and types
• Clean up Xcode schemes
• Set UIViewKitDevelopmentViews as an internal product by commenting it

Improve DSL Experience when working with UIScrollView and other complex UIViews

What's Changed

• ibSubviews's superview is typed with the parent class, which means it's able to set constraints with a custom UILayoutGuide.
• Update involvesOwnerView to allow setting constraints between the frame and content of UIScrollView, for example.
• Add IBView subclass of UIView to avoid overriding init methods in subclasses of UIView.
• ibAttributes supports all types of syntaxes due to the support of Any? in @NSLayoutConstraintBuilder."
• Add more unit tests.

Achieved DSL Surface Stability

Achieved DSL Surface Stability

1.4.0

UIViewDSL:

• Add Support For Carthage Dependency Manager
• 'IBConstraints' moved to UIView extension and renamed to 'ibConstraints'
• Add ViewInCode subclass of UIView to eliminate overriding init(frame:) and init(coder:) methods
• Add buildExpression for Any? which allows more configurations in 'ibAttributes' like '$0.view1.label?.font = ...'
• HorizontalStack and VerticalStack were transformed from subclasses of UIStackView to functions to minimize impact on UIKit
• Add additional tests for the DSL

UIViewDebug:

• Add showViewsWhichHasAmbiguousLayout which displays an overlay over views with ambiguous layouts.

Previews:

• Set ACL internal on previews. Xcode 15.0 comes with #Preview macros so at this moment it is privileged to use native solution. Custom previews are under active research and maybe development.

Improve DSL syntax when writing and reading

• ibConstraints transformed to global function
• NSLayoutConstraints.activate renamed to NSLayoutConstraints.ibActivate

API Safeguard Update

In this release, I've made the decision to remove functions ibOutlet with @UIViewBuilder closures APIs to safeguard against potential misuse.

UIViewKit v1.0

v1.0.0

Enhancements, Refactoring, and Fixes for UIViewDSL Component and Asso…

Introduce UIViewDebug Tools

What's Changed

• Introduce UIViewDebug Tools and Address .swiftpm Build Issues on SwiftPackageIndex by @Adobels in #1

New Contributors

• @Adobels made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: v0.9.0...v0.9.1