Where to determine UIView size

Question

Summary: How should the UIViewController know the size of its UIView instance when initialising that view?

The dedicated initialisation method for an UIView

Answer 1

You don't have to use the designated initializer. Just use init as in [[UIView alloc] init]. The designated initializer has to be used from subclasses' initializers.

On the other hand, setting the frame twice should not do much harm. Performing a lot of tasks in setFrame: is unusual. Layouting is normally done in layoutSubviews and is only performed once.