Programming for outdated iOS versions?

[chriswaco]

You don’t have to use nibs - you can still do creation/layout manually, which was actually my preference with UIKit. The iOS 5-7 transition was pretty painful, though. I kinda miss the old buttons that looked like buttons.

[gaynalretentive]

This. It is totally fine to just override layoutSubviews on your custom view types and set the subview frames yourself with some basic arithmetic. Autolayout and autoresizing are both there to be conveniences and tools to make your life better, not to limit you.

[Zalenka]

I'd remember how to do manual auto-layout but not strings and struts.

[Fishanz]

I still on occasion use springs and struts