Creating and loading Views with another UIView in the Storyboard in Xcode

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I have a storyboard with multiple UIViews.

Inside one of my UIViews I add additional sub-views. I essentially drag and drop UITableViews,UIViews etc inside the same UIViewController. See the screenshot below:

HORRIBLE LOOKING VIEW

How can I create these views as separate entities of the storyboard but then.. load them into a particular UIView?

you want to create separate views and load them in you view controller right? — naresh, May 13 '15 at 12:05
yeah, should I use .xib files? if so.. how can I load them into the UIViewController? — cwiggo, May 13 '15 at 12:06
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9498010/custom-views-with-storyboard this might help if you want to create subview in storyboard — naresh, May 13 '15 at 12:09
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7814928/how-to-load-a-xib-file-in-a-uiview this is for loading view from xib — naresh, May 13 '15 at 12:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 13 '15 at 12:38

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Maybe you want to use a container. You can embed another UIViewController in a container via right click -> embed -> drag to desired UIViewController You can even use this UIViewController in multiple containers this way (reusing).

answered May 13 '15 at 12:38

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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The traditional way to do this would be to subclass the UIViews you want to reuse and declare their interfaces as separate xibs. Then initialize them in your ViewController and then add/position them to the base UIView with addSubview:

See this SO answer for more of an explanation. https://stackoverflow.com/a/12880151/902730

edited May 23 '17 at 10:24

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answered May 13 '15 at 12:48

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Creating and loading Views with another UIView in the Storyboard in Xcode

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