I am familiar with using scoreboards to construct UI elements in Xcode, but I am only beginning to learn how to make UI programmatically (with out storyboard).
I wanted to know if this is the correct way to implement a UIView into an existing ViewController class.
DetailView (Custom UIView class):
.h file (header)
@interface DetailView : UIView
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIImageView *imageView;
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIImageView *ratingView;
@property (strong, nonatomic) UILabel *tagLabel;
@property (strong, nonatomic) UILabel *plotLabel;
@end
.m file (implementation)
- (instancetype)init {
if(self = [super init]){
// Creating the large movie image
_imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0, 64.0, 375.0f, 200.0f)];
// Creating the rating image
_ratingView = [[UIImageView alloc] init];
// Creating the tag Label
_tagLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(38, 274, 355, 200)];
self.tagLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue" size:12];
// Creating the plot label
_plotLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 299, 355, 200)];
self.plotLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue" size:14];
[self addSubview:self.imageView];
[self addSubview:self.ratingView];
[self addSubview:self.tagLabel];
[self addSubview:self.plotLabel];
}
return self;
}
View Controller:
Commented code is another way I attempted to implement the DetailView
- (void)viewDidLoad {
[super viewDidLoad];
self.detailView = [[DetailView alloc] init];
self.title = self.movie.title;
self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
self.detailView.imageView.image =
[UIImage imageWithData:[NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:self.movie.fanArt]]];
//[self.view addSubview:self.detailView.imageView];
[self setRatingImage:self.movie.rating];
//[self.view addSubview:self.detailView.ratingView];
self.detailView.tagLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
self.detailView.tagLabel.text = self.movie.tagline;
[self.detailView.tagLabel sizeToFit];
//[self.view addSubview:self.detailView.tagLabel];
self.detailView.plotLabel.numberOfLines = 0;
self.detailView.plotLabel.text = self.movie.plot;
[self.detailView.plotLabel sizeToFit];
//[self.view addSubview:self.detailView.plotLabel];
[self.view addSubview:self.detailView];
}
