Creating a programmatic tab bar with storyboard view controllers?

Question

I have a tab bar that is created programmatically and I\'m having difficulties initializing a storyboard associated with a view.

I\'m able to load the view successfully

Answer 1

Swift 4

let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
settingsViewController = storyboard.instantiateInitialViewController()
settingsViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "SettingsViewController")

Answer 2

If you want to initialize the view controller as in the storyboard you have to use the storyboard methods instead of allocating the view controller directly:

// load the storyboard by name
UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard" bundle:nil];

// either one of the two, depending on if your view controller is the initial one
settingsViewController = [storyboard instantiateInitialViewController];
settingsViewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"SettingsViewController"];