Using a custom view in storyboardsOpen up your story board and drag a View (colored orange below for visibility) from the Object Library into your view controller. Set the view's custom class to your custom view's class. Create an outlet for the custom view in your view controller.
My contribution:
extension UIView {
class func fromNib<T: UIView>() -> T {
return Bundle(for: T.self).loadNibNamed(String(describing: T.self), owner: nil, options: nil)![0] as! T
}
}
Then call it like this:
let myCustomView: CustomView = UIView.fromNib()
..or even:
let myCustomView: CustomView = .fromNib()
Original Solution
.
class SomeView: UIView {
required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
super.init(coder: aDecoder)
NSBundle.mainBundle().loadNibNamed("SomeView", owner: self, options: nil)
self.addSubview(self.view); // adding the top level view to the view hierarchy
}
...
}
Note that this way I get a class that loads itself from nib. I could then use SomeView as a class whenever UIView could be used in the project (in interface builder or programmatically).
Update - using Swift 3 syntax
Loading a xib in the following extension is written as an instance method, which can then be used by an initializer like the one above:
extension UIView {
@discardableResult // 1
func fromNib<T : UIView>() -> T? { // 2
guard let contentView = Bundle(for: type(of: self)).loadNibNamed(String(describing: type(of: self)), owner: self, options: nil)?.first as? T else { // 3
// xib not loaded, or its top view is of the wrong type
return nil
}
self.addSubview(contentView) // 4
contentView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false // 5
contentView.layoutAttachAll(to: self) // 6
return contentView // 7
}
}
And the caller method might look like this:
final class SomeView: UIView { // 1.
required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) { // 2 - storyboard initializer
super.init(coder: aDecoder)
fromNib() // 5.
}
init() { // 3 - programmatic initializer
super.init(frame: CGRect.zero) // 4.
fromNib() // 6.
}
// other methods ...
}
Credit: Using a generic extension in this solution was inspired by Robert's answer below.
Edit Changing "view" to "contentView" to avoid confusion. Also changed the array subscript to ".first".
Now being able to return -> Self
in swift helps simplify this a bit. Last confirmed on Swift 5.
extension UIView {
class func fromNib(named: String? = nil) -> Self {
let name = named ?? "\(Self.self)"
guard
let nib = Bundle.main.loadNibNamed(name, owner: nil, options: nil)
else { fatalError("missing expected nib named: \(name)") }
guard
/// we're using `first` here because compact map chokes compiler on
/// optimized release, so you can't use two views in one nib if you wanted to
/// and are now looking at this
let view = nib.first as? Self
else { fatalError("view of type \(Self.self) not found in \(nib)") }
return view
}
}
If your .xib
file and subclass share the same name, you can use:
let view = CustomView.fromNib()
If you have a custom name, use:
let view = CustomView.fromNib(named: "special-case")
NOTE:
If you're getting the error "view of type YourType not found in.." then you haven't set the view's class in the .xib
file
Select your view in the .xib
file, and press cmd + opt + 4
and in the class
input, enter your class
Swift 4 - 5.1 Protocol Extensions
public protocol NibInstantiatable {
static func nibName() -> String
}
extension NibInstantiatable {
static func nibName() -> String {
return String(describing: self)
}
}
extension NibInstantiatable where Self: UIView {
static func fromNib() -> Self {
let bundle = Bundle(for: self)
let nib = bundle.loadNibNamed(nibName(), owner: self, options: nil)
return nib!.first as! Self
}
}
Adoption
class MyView: UIView, NibInstantiatable {
}
This implementation assumes that the Nib has the same name as the UIView class. Ex. MyView.xib. You can modify this behavior by implementing nibName() in MyView to return a different name than the default protocol extension implementation.
In the xib the files owner is MyView and the root view class is MyView.
Usage
let view = MyView.fromNib()
try following code.
var uiview :UIView?
self.uiview = NSBundle.mainBundle().loadNibNamed("myXib", owner: self, options: nil)[0] as? UIView
Edit:
import UIKit
class TestObject: NSObject {
var uiview:UIView?
init() {
super.init()
self.uiview = NSBundle.mainBundle().loadNibNamed("myXib", owner: self, options: nil)[0] as? UIView
}
}
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