Are view controllers with nib files broken in ios 8 beta 5?

Question

I created a test project in ios 8 beta 4 which as a main view controller and a second view controller created as a UIViewController subclass with a xib file.

I put a

Answer 1

This trick works for me. If you have a base view controller class you can override the nibName property returning the class name (equals to the xib file name).

class BaseViewController: UIViewController {

   override var nibName: String? {
      get {
         guard #available(iOS 9, *) else {
            let nib = String(self.classForCoder)
            return nib
         }

         return super.nibName
       }
    }
}

All view controllers that inherit from this base class could load their xib. e.g. MyViewController: BaseViewController could load MyViewController.xib