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Create an IBDesignable UIView subclass with code from an XIB file in Xcode 6 — iPhoneDev.tv. You can create a custom UIView subclass and load the interface from an XIB file. In Xcode 6, you can also go a step further and provide design time visualization and customization in Xcode’s Attributes Inspector. This is a big deal if you’ve ever loaded an XIB file from code and attached it to a user interface. In the past, you could block out the colors of the UI, but you could never see the composition. You also couldn’t change any of the parameters at design time within your main Storyboard or XIB file. These are the steps to making a custom UIView that is designable within Xcode: Note If you leverage any image assets, you’ll want to make sure they are in the same bundle as the custom view. In the following steps I will visually show and explain what you'll need to do to create an IBDesignable and IBInspectable UIView that you can reuse in your iPhone apps.

The first thing you'll need is a new user interface file called an XIB or .xib or nib file. Iphone - What's the best way to validate currency input in UITextField. Beginning Storyboards in iOS 5 Part 1. This post is also available in: Chinese (Simplified) If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed or follow me on Twitter . Thanks for visiting! This is the second iOS 5 tutorial in the iOS 5 Feast ! This tutorial is a free preview chapter from our new book iOS 5 By Tutorials . Storyboarding is an exciting new feature in iOS 5 that will save you a lot of time building user interfaces for your apps. You may not know exactly yet what the app does but you can clearly see which screens it has and how they are related. If you have an app with many different screens then storyboards can help reduce the amount of glue code you have to write to go from one screen to the next.

Storyboards have a number of advantages over regular nibs: With a storyboard you have a better conceptual overview of all the screens in your app and the connections between them. The storyboard describes the transitions between the various screens. You can still use nibs with iOS 5 and Xcode 4.2. . : Ratings. Iphone - Changing Tint / Background color of UITabBar.