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Ok, I'm clearly missing something with iOS development. I've been developer for over 10 years and I'm jumping into iOS development now and absolutely everything seems to be a near impossible task to accomplish, when it is literally 2-3 lines of code to implement something using HTML/CSS/Javascript/Java etc. it seems to be a days worth of time trying to figure out how to actually implement something so unbelievably simple. Let me start with a few examples;- Responsive design: This seems to be focused around Constraints (but not to 'margins' or this breaks everything), yet this then breaks when you try and add something else into the middle and move items around in the storyboard, so you have to reset all the constraints and start again. Time and time again. What am I missing here? - Picker View: This is a simple select/option in HTML. I've yet to find any working code online that can implement this. I'm just looking for a simple Country selector to allow users to choose details - Date View: I haven't event started looking at this yet, I'm anticipating even more problems with this when it comes to date formats / working with dates etc. The offical documentation from Apple is abysmal and every tutorial you find online is out of date or doesn't work. I'm at a loss here. I'm seriously thinking of just giving up on iOS development for a couple of years until the ecosystem grows up a bit and is possible to understand and implement the very basic things. Am I missing something here while tearing my hair out? Or is it really this bad? Tips, guides, pointers, all useful. Any pros out here, please, point me in the right direction to pick this up quickly. This post is out of frustration after reading through all of the official guidelines and many tutorials online too. Another prime example of this.... posting this question - having to figure out what on earth 'enter the name of a place' means, England?