With all due respect... what in the name of holy hell mobile app can possibly require 100 engineers working together over several years all on the parts that touch the UI?
I can barely think of even the most complicated thick-client enterprise apps (where the UX is just awful and customizable to death with window upon window upon pane upon tab upon tab upon pane clusterf*ck layouts) I've ever seen that required anywhere near that many core UI engineers.
That just seems like a number of engineers toiling away in parallel that raises a "maybe you're doing it wrong" flag for me. :-/
This is genuine curiosity because I find that just epically flabbergasting.
At my last company, there was 1 full time iOS engineer (me) and we later grew to about 18 full time iOS engineers. The xibs are painful point started happening around 8 full and part time iOS engineers.
You have many part time iOS engineers who may need to touch UI once in a while, and that can cause issues. After a dozen 'I have to throw away all of my xib work and recreate it because they've committed a new version of the xib', you become fine with just not using xibs any more.
Another annoying point is that Xcode tends to modify xib any time you open it. You don't need to do anything, just open it and boom, it gets that "M" in source control.
I can barely think of even the most complicated thick-client enterprise apps (where the UX is just awful and customizable to death with window upon window upon pane upon tab upon tab upon pane clusterf*ck layouts) I've ever seen that required anywhere near that many core UI engineers.
That just seems like a number of engineers toiling away in parallel that raises a "maybe you're doing it wrong" flag for me. :-/
This is genuine curiosity because I find that just epically flabbergasting.