How to implement two inits with same content without code duplication in Swift?

Question

Assume a class that is derived from UIView as follows:

class MyView: UIView {
    var myImageView: UIImageView

    init(frame: CGRect) {
               


        

Answer 1

Yet another option using a static method (added 'otherView' to highlight scalability)

class MyView: UIView {

    var myImageView: UIImageView
    var otherView: UIView

    override init(frame: CGRect) {
        (myImageView,otherView) = MyView.commonInit()
        super.init(frame: frame)
    }

    required init(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        (myImageView, otherView) = MyView.commonInit()
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)!
    }

    private static func commonInit() -> (UIImageView, UIView) {
        //do whatever initialization stuff is required here
        let someImageView = UIImageView(frame: CGRectZero)
        someImageView.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.ScaleAspectFill
        let someView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 30, height: 30))
        return (someImageView, someView)
    }
}