uicontainerview
How do I get the views inside a container in Swift?
You can use prepareForSegue, a method in UIViewController, to gain access to any UIViewController being segued to from your current view controller, this includes embed segues. From the documentation about prepareForSegue: The default implementation of this method does nothing. Your view controller overrides this method when it needs to pass relevant data to the new … Read more
How to add a subview that has its own UIViewController in Objective-C?
This post dates from the early days of modern iOS. It is updated with current information and the current Swift syntax. In iOS today “everything is a container view”. It is the basic way you make apps today. An app may be so simple that it has just the one screen. But even in that … Read more
Sizing a Container View with a controller of dynamic size inside a scrollview
Yup, there is. I managed to achieve that kind of behavior in one of my own projects. All you gotta do is to tell the system that it should not add constraints that mimic the fixed frame set for your root view in Interface Builder. The best place to do this is in your container … Read more
What does addChildViewController actually do?
I think an example is worth a thousand words. I was working on a library app and wanted to show a nice notepad view that appears when the user wants to add a note. After trying some solutions, I ended up inventing my own custom solution to show the notepad. So when I want to … Read more
How to add a Container View programmatically
A storyboard “container view” is just a standard UIView object. There is no special “container view” type. In fact, if you look at the view hierarchy, you can see that the “container view” is a standard UIView: To achieve this programmatically, you employ “view controller containment”: Instantiate the child view controller by calling instantiateViewController(withIdentifier:) on … Read more
Access Container View Controller from Parent iOS
Yes, you can use the segue to get access the child view controller (and its view and subviews). Give the segue an identifier (such as alertview_embed), using the Attributes inspector in Storyboard. Then have the parent view controller (the one housing the container view) implement a method like this: – (void) prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender { … Read more