How to embed a custom view xib in a storyboard scene?

Question

I\'m relatively new in the XCode/iOS world; I\'ve done some decent sized storyboard based apps, but I didn\'t ever cut me teeth on the whole nib/xib thing. I want to use the sam

Answer 1

I've been using this code snippet for years. If you plan on having custom class views in your XIB just drop this in the .m file of your custom class.

As a side effect it results in awakeFromNib being called so you can leave all your init/setup code in there.

- (id)awakeAfterUsingCoder:(NSCoder*)aDecoder {
    if ([[self subviews] count] == 0) {
        UIView *view = [[NSBundle mainBundle] loadNibNamed:NSStringFromClass([self class]) owner:nil options:nil][0];
        view.frame = self.frame;
        view.autoresizingMask = self.autoresizingMask;
        view.alpha = self.alpha;
        view.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = self.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints;
        return view;
    }
    return self;
}