A storyboard “container view” is just a standard UIView object. There is no special “container view” type. In fact, if you look at the view hierarchy, you can see that the “container view” is a standard UIView: To achieve this programmatically, you employ “view controller containment”: Instantiate the child view controller by calling instantiateViewController(withIdentifier:) on … Read more
I think an example is worth a thousand words. I was working on a library app and wanted to show a nice notepad view that appears when the user wants to add a note. After trying some solutions, I ended up inventing my own custom solution to show the notepad. So when I want to … Read more
Yes, you can use the segue to get access the child view controller (and its view and subviews). Give the segue an identifier (such as alertview_embed), using the Attributes inspector in Storyboard. Then have the parent view controller (the one housing the container view) implement a method like this: – (void) prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender { … Read more
This post dates from the early days of modern iOS. It is updated with current information and the current Swift syntax. In iOS today “everything is a container view”. It is the basic way you make apps today. An app may be so simple that it has just the one screen. But even in that … Read more