Creating a reusable UIView with xib (and loading from storyboard)

Question

OK, there are dozens of posts on StackOverflow about this, but none are particularly clear on the solution. I\'d like to create a custom UIView with an accompan

Answer 1

Note that this QA (like many) is really just of historic interest.

Nowadays For years and years now in iOS everything's just a container view. Full tutorial here

(Indeed Apple finally added Storyboard References, some time ago now, making it far easier.)

Here's a typical storyboard with container views everywhere. Everything's a container view. It's just how you make apps.

(As a curiosity, KenC's answer shows exactly how, it used to be done to load an xib to a kind of wrapper view, since you can't really "assign to self".)