iOS custom views in xib files

ios, ios5, ipad, iphone

Solution

If you add custom views into a xib file, you can't use a custom initializer. They will all be initialized using `initWithCoder`.

Typically you'd do any set up in a common method called from there, or in `awakeFromNib`.

If you need to set any custom properties on your view which originate from outside it, do it in `viewDidLoad` of your view controller.

Problem

I usually create my custom views programatically and have them intended to be initialised programatically as well with custom init methods (e.g. initWithFrame:SomeParam:OtherParam). Is it possible to use such custom views in combination with a xib file? That is, having a parent xib file which has various of these custom views as subviews in which these subviews may need to use a different init method?

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