Question

I’m making an app that will have a VC doing a similar job as a UITabBarController and I’m using

[self addChildViewController:theViewController];
// [self addSubview ... etc

to put a custom UIViewController’s view as a subview of my main (root) VC.

So my question is, which is the correct way to instantiate a VC and not have to build it’s UI programatically – from a .xib file, or from a storyboard?

With a xib:

UICustomViewController *controller = [[UICustomViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"customVC" bundle:nil];

With a storyboard:

UICustomViewController* child = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:identifier];

I believe .xib files are old stuff and storyboards are the way to go, but I also read this article, which suggests that using a storyboard to do this is a bit hacky. I don’t know, any thoughts?

Answer 1

there is nothing any major difference in both way , they are same . but in many other angle storyboard is the straight way, there is nothing any hacky