View is null in viewDidLoad

Question

I created UITabBarController with each tab contain UINavigationController and set rootviewcontroller in this UINavigationController, all of this is done in interface builder. In viewDidLoad I try to get frame size from view, but when I reference view it return null. Have anyone experienced this before.

All IBoutlet are properly connected.

Answer 1

viewDidLoad returning a nil view if the view is connected in your .xib could mean:

For programmatic initialisation (custom controllers):

• You forgot to call initWithNibName:bundle: on the view controller class altogether (you may have called init or something instead).
• You've overridden the loadView method in your view controller class, but it doesn't set the view.

For all controllers:

• An outlet connection hasn't been made correctly.
• You have accidentally released the view or view controller before showing it.
• The nibName parameter was not properly specified when initialising the view (the nib could not be found or one without a view was found.. though this should also throw an exception).
• There wasn't enough memory to allocate the view (the app would likely have been terminated by that point though).

I'd recommend you try doing frame size calculations in viewWillAppear: instead and see if the view is still nil at that point.