Typically this happens because your view controller hasn’t loaded its view hierarchy yet. A view controller only loads its view hierarchy when something sends it the view message. The system does this when it is time to actually put the view hierarchy on the screen, which happens after things like prepareForSegue:sender: and viewWillAppear: have returned. … Read more
I’m answering my own question because I just spent 2 hours to find the solution and StackOverflow allows this QA style. Start to finish here is how to make it work in storyboard. 1: go to you view controller and click on Attribute Inspector. 2: change Size to Freeform instead of Inferred. 3: Go to … Read more
Yes, but you have to do it programmatically: // Get the storyboard named secondStoryBoard from the main bundle: UIStoryboard *secondStoryBoard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@”secondStoryBoard” bundle:nil]; // Load the initial view controller from the storyboard. // Set this by selecting ‘Is Initial View Controller’ on the appropriate view controller in the storyboard. UIViewController *theInitialViewController = [secondStoryBoard instantiateInitialViewController]; … Read more
Just use a prototype cell as your section header and / or footer. add an extra cell and put your desired elements in it. set the identifier to something specific (in my case SectionHeader) implement the tableView:viewForHeaderInSection: method or the tableView:viewForFooterInSection: method use [tableView dequeueReusableCellWithIdentifier:] to get the header implement the tableView:heightForHeaderInSection: method. -(UIView *) … Read more
Update 1/12/2016: It’s 2016 and I still prefer laying out my UIs in code and not in Storyboards. That being said, Storyboards have come a long way. I have removed all the points from this post that simply do not apply anymore in 2016. Update 4/24/2015: Interestingly Apple doesn’t even use Storyboards in their recently … Read more
Library content has moved from the bottom of the Inspector area to an overlay window, which can be moved and resized like Spotlight search. It dismisses once items are dragged, but holding the Option key before dragging will keep the library open for an additional drag. The library can be opened via: a new toolbar … Read more
How to without a dummy initial view controller Ensure all initial view controllers have a Storyboard ID. In the storyboard, uncheck the “Is initial View Controller” attribute from the first view controller. If you run your app at this point you’ll read: Failed to instantiate the default view controller for UIMainStoryboardFile ‘MainStoryboard’ – perhaps the … Read more
In your appDelegate.m inside your didFinishLaunchingWithOptions //authenticatedUser: check from NSUserDefaults User credential if its present then set your navigation flow accordingly if (authenticatedUser) { self.window.rootViewController = [[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@”Main” bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]] instantiateInitialViewController]; } else { UIViewController* rootController = [[UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@”Main” bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]] instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@”LoginViewController”]; UINavigationController* navigation = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:rootController]; self.window.rootViewController = navigation; } In SignUpViewController.m file … Read more
In a Nutshell An unwind segue (sometimes called exit segue) can be used to navigate back through push, modal or popover segues (as if you popped the navigation item from the navigation bar, closed the popover or dismissed the modally presented view controller). On top of that you can actually unwind through not only one … Read more
I resolved this issue as I was typing the question. I figured I’d answer my question and leave it here for anyone else who may face this issue when using Xcode 6 beta 4. To resolve this issue, you need to select each of your custom class objects in Storyboard (this includes any custom views, … Read more