XibView

Live-rendering reusable views from .xib files.

The Problem

You wanna design a re-usable control that you can use in Interface Builder, you can do this in two ways:

• Subclass and design your control programatically, which is not that convenient.
• Use a .xib file, have a separate subclass of your control that adds the content of your .xib to your control through boilerplate code called from init(frame:) and init?(coder:), which you'll duplicate for each control.

The Solution

1. Subclass XibView and make it IBDesignable
2. Design your control in a .xib that has the same name as the subclass.
3. Profit.

Example

See Example directory.

Installation

1. CocoaPods, add to your Podfile:

pod 'XibView', :git => 'https://github.com/hot3eed/XibView.git'

2. Carthage, add to your Cartfile:

github "hot3eed/XibView"

But UIKit is dead?

Not yet. SwiftUI is still young and it's backed by UIKit anyway, so it's here to stay, for a while at least.

Author

Abdelrahman Eid, hot3eed@gmail.com

License

XibView is available under the Apache 2.0 license. See the LICENSE file for more info.