Question

I have a custom UIViewController in Interface Builder (in my storyboard) and I want to add this view I assembled into another view programmatically. I have made a class for the view controller I made but simply importing and adding that custom class as a subview doesn’t appear to work.

Answer 1

You’ll need to load an instance of the view controller from the UIStoryboard object and add it’s view as a subview. That code would look something like this:

UIStoryboard* storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard" bundle:nil];
MyViewController* myVc = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"ident"];
[self.view addSubview:myVc.view];

Make sure you set the identifier field for your view controller in IB and pass that to the “instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier” method.