Using Storyboards?

[andres-cianio]

While I love this component and how simple it is, I'm having quite a weird situation...
I've got everything working as per the demo example, but there is a thing that keeps me bothering, and it's creating the buttons in runtime with fixed frames. Since I hate working with constraints in code I decided to build a simple XIB and setup the buttons there.
The problem is that the previewView hides the buttons! From what I understand, the previewView is added later on, so it covers everything that's there; so adding the buttons after view did load manages to put the buttons above.
For now I'm gonna try moving the buttons to front, but is there any other way?

[Awalz]

Indeed, the PreviewLayer is created in ViewDidLoad. It will conflict with with views in XIB's and Storyboards as they are added prior to ViewDidLoad being called. Calling bringSubview(toFront:) for your views in ViewDidLoad would work just fine for now.

I am working on a new build where the PreviewLayer is self.view, rather than added after the fact, which should resolve this issue for IB users

[andres-cianio]

Awesome! I had something like that in mind, but for now I'll stick to bringSubview(toFront:).
Thanks!

[eric-krikey]

Can you elaborate on this concept (calling bringSubview(toFront:))? When I have tried to do this, it hasn't actually worked. I am using a simple storyboard. I put a UINavigationBar and a button on, intending to be overlaid on the camera stream. Here is my code in viewDidLoad():
navBar.superview?.bringSubview(toFront: navBar) recordButton.superview?.bringSubview(toFront: recordButton)

[andres-cianio]

I was doing just that... for each of my custom buttons, calling its superview bringSubview(toFront:). Don't know about the navbar though.
I have a ViewController that inherits from SwiftyCamViewController, and in this VC viewDidLoad I do:
closeButton.superview?.bringSubview(toFront: closeButton) mainButton.superview?.bringSubview(toFront: mainButton) misteryToggleButton.superview?.bringSubview(toFront: misteryToggleButton)
where closeButton, mainButton, misteryToggleButton are IBOutlets of buttons defined in the Storyboard.

[eric-krikey]

Hmm. Yeah, no matter what I seem to do, I can't get my UIButton or SwiftyButton to appear. I even tried to use the Debug View Hierarchy tool, and I can't see anything from my xib on it.