Is there a way for Interface Builder to render IBDesignable views which don't override drawRect:

Question

I very rarely override drawRect in my UIView subclasses, usually preferring to set layer.contents with pre-rendering images and often employing multiple sublaye

Answer 1

In my case, there were two problems:

1. I did not implement initWithFrame in custom view: (Usually initWithCoder: is called when you initialize via IB, but for some reason initWithFrame: is needed for IBDesignable only. Is not called during runtime when you implement via IB)

2. My custom view's nib was loading from mainBundle: [NSBundle bundleForClass:[self class]] was needed.