Question

I’m very new on iPhone development. I wondering where to put some custom initialization of an instance variables for my UIViewController.

Can I use initWithNibName:bundle:?

Thanks.

Answer 1

initWithNibName:bundle: is the designated initializer, and should be used for custom initialization of the view controller. You should use this for the instance variable code that should run once, on creation of the view controller, except for views controlled by this view controller.

The views may come and go in the run of the application. Therefore you may want to initialize the view more than once from one view controller object. You should place the view initialization code in loadView if you are not using a nib for the view, or viewDidLoad if you are using a nib.