CGLayout VS FlexLayout

Compare CGLayout vs FlexLayout and see what are their differences.

CGLayout

Powerful autolayout framework, that can manage UIView(NSView), CALayer and not rendered views. Not Apple Autolayout wrapper. Provides placeholders. Linux support. (by k-o-d-e-n)

FlexLayout

FlexLayout adds a nice Swift interface to the highly optimized facebook/yoga flexbox implementation. Concise, intuitive & chainable syntax. (by layoutBox)
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CGLayout FlexLayout
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44 1,899
- 1.3%
0.0 8.6
over 1 year ago about 1 month ago
Swift Swift
MIT License MIT License
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CGLayout

Posts with mentions or reviews of CGLayout. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

FlexLayout

Posts with mentions or reviews of FlexLayout. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-27.
  • Building Reddit’s Design System on iOS
    5 projects | /r/RedditEng | 27 Sep 2023
    We still wanted to leverage a layout engine that could be performant and easy-to-use. After doing some performance testing with native UIKit, Autolayout, and a few other third-party options, we ended up bringing FlexLayout into the mix, which is a Swift implementation of Facebook’s Yoga layout engine. All RPL components utilize FlexLayout in order to lay out content fast and efficiently. While we’ve enjoyed using it, we’ve found a few touch points to be mindful of. There are some rough edges we’ve found, such as utilizing stack views with subviews that use FlexLayout, that often come at odds with both UIKit and FlexLayout’s layout engines.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CGLayout and FlexLayout you can also consider the following projects:

SnapKit - A Swift Autolayout DSL for iOS & OS X

PinLayout - Fast Swift Views layouting without auto layout. No magic, pure code, full control and blazing fast. Concise syntax, intuitive, readable & chainable. [iOS/macOS/tvOS/CALayer]

LayoutKit - LayoutKit is a fast view layout library for iOS, macOS, and tvOS.

Cassowary - A Swift port of the Cassowary linear constraint solver

SwiftBox - Flexbox in Swift, using Facebook's css-layout.

Masonry - Harness the power of AutoLayout NSLayoutConstraints with a simplified, chainable and expressive syntax. Supports iOS and OSX Auto Layout

ReusableViews - Idiomatic instantiation and dequeuing

SwiftAutoLayout - Tiny Swift DSL for Autolayout

Grid - The most powerful Grid container missed in SwiftUI

Cupcake - An easy way to create and layout UI components for iOS (Swift version).

PureLayout - The ultimate API for iOS & OS X Auto Layout — impressively simple, immensely powerful. Objective-C and Swift compatible.