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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
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iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide

by Joe Conway, Aaron Hillegass
March 2012
Intermediate to advanced
590 pages
22h 48m
English
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View Controller Lifecycle

A UIViewController begins its life when it is allocated and sent an initializer message. A view controller will see its view created, moved on screen, moved off screen, destroyed, and created again – perhaps many times over. These events make up the view controller lifecycle.

Initializing view controllers

The designated initializer of UIViewController is initWithNibName:bundle:. This method takes two arguments that specify the name of the view controller’s XIB file inside a bundle. (Remember that building a target in Xcode creates an application bundle; this is the same kind of bundle we’re talking about here.)

Passing nil for both arguments says, “When you load your view, search for a XIB file whose name is the same ...

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