Can UIStackView support iOS 8 or 7?

Question

I know that UIStackview is a new feature in iOS 9. If I want my app to support iOS 8 or iOS 7, does that mean I shouldn't use stack views?

Answer 1

It looks like it's for iOS 9+.

UIStackView

Availability

Available in iOS 9.0 and later

Answer 2

UIStackView is only available in "iOS 9.0 and later".

If you need to support earlier versions of iOS, check out OAStackView, a drop-in replacement which "implements most of the features from UIStackView" and supports iOS 7+.

A few minor features haven't been finished yet. I tried it out using the UIStackView-Playground project and it works pretty well.

Answer 3

UIStackView is supported only in iOS 9+. For people looking for a backport to iOS7/8:

https://github.com/oarrabi/OAStackView

Answer 4

You could also check out MarkupKit (I'm the project's author):

https://github.com/gk-brown/MarkupKit

The LMColumnView and LMRowView classes are very similar to UIStackView but work with iOS 8. They also have a couple features that UIStackView doesn't have, such as the ability to set a background color and weight-based distribution.

See this article for more information:

https://gkbrown.wordpress.com/2015/09/29/using-uistackview-with-markupkit/