Question

simple question,

If you’re using a UIStoryboard, will UIViewController call awakeFromNib?

If not, what is the alternative method being called that we should use?

Cheers!

Answer 1

Yes, awakeFromNib is being called.

According to the documentation:

Initializing a View Controller Loaded from a Storyboard When you
create a view controller in a storyboard, the attributes you configure
in Interface Builder are stored in an archive. Later, when the view
controller is instantiated, this archive is loaded into memory and
processed. The result is a set of objects whose attributes match those
you set in Interface Builder. Here’s how that archive is loaded:

If your view controller implements an initWithCoder: method, that
method is called to process the information in the archive. If your
view controller does not implement an initWithCoder: method, your view
controller’s init method is called instead.

After the objects in the archive are loaded, iOS calls the awakeFromNib method on any objects
that implement such a method. You use this method to perform any
configuration steps that require other objects to already be
instantiated.