Why “loadNibNamed” methods return array?

Question

When we use the loadNibNamed method to get nib file, why will return a array, is not a nib file name corresponds to a nib file? I try to print this array\'s count, I found it al

Answer 1

The reason that xib return an array is that ".XIB" can contain multiple views. The advantage is that you don't have to create one xib file for one view. You simply just put multiple views into one XIB and access it from an array

Example
.Xib --> array[view1, view2, view3, view4]

You can see from image