Swift subclass UIView

Question

I want to subclass UIView and show a login like view. I\'ve created this in Objective-C, but now I want to port it to Swift. I do not use storyboards, so I crea

Answer 1

Here's an example of how I usually build my subclasses(UIView). I have the content as variables so they can be accessed and tweaked maybe later in some other class. I've also shown how I use auto layout and adding content.

For example in a ViewController I have this view initialized In ViewDidLoad() since that is only called once when the view is visible. Then I use these functions I make here addContentToView() and then activateConstraints() to build the content and set constraints. If I later in a ViewController want the color of let's say a button to be red, I just do that in that specific function in that ViewController. Something like: func tweaksome(){ self.customView.someButton.color = UIColor.red}

class SomeView: UIView {


var leading: NSLayoutConstraint!
var trailing: NSLayoutConstraint!
var bottom: NSLayoutConstraint!
var height: NSLayoutConstraint!


var someButton: UIButton = {
    var btn: UIButton = UIButton(type: UIButtonType.system)
    btn.setImage(UIImage(named: "someImage"), for: .normal)
    btn.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    return btn
}()

var btnLeading: NSLayoutConstraint!
var btnBottom: NSLayoutConstraint!
var btnTop: NSLayoutConstraint!
var btnWidth: NSLayoutConstraint!

var textfield: UITextField = {
    var tf: UITextField = UITextField()
    tf.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
    tf.placeholder = "Cool placeholder"
    tf.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    tf.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
    tf.textColor = UIColor.black
    return tf
}()
var txtfieldLeading: NSLayoutConstraint!
var txtfieldTrailing: NSLayoutConstraint!
var txtfieldCenterY: NSLayoutConstraint!

override init(frame: CGRect){
    super.init(frame: frame)
    self.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
}

required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
    super.init(coder: aDecoder)
    //fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}



/*
// Only override draw() if you perform custom drawing.
// An empty implementation adversely affects performance during animation.
override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
    // Drawing code

}
*/
func activateConstraints(){
    NSLayoutConstraint.activate([self.btnLeading, self.btnBottom, self.btnTop, self.btnWidth])
    NSLayoutConstraint.activate([self.txtfieldCenterY, self.txtfieldLeading, self.txtfieldTrailing])
}

func addContentToView(){
    //setting the sizes
    self.addSubview(self.userLocationBtn)

    self.btnLeading = NSLayoutConstraint(
        item: someButton,
        attribute: .leading,
        relatedBy: .equal,
        toItem: self,
        attribute: .leading,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 5.0)
    self.btnBottom = NSLayoutConstraint(
        item: someButton,
        attribute: .bottom,
        relatedBy: .equal,
        toItem: self,
        attribute: .bottom,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 0.0)
    self.btnTop = NSLayoutConstraint(
        item: someButton,
        attribute: .top,
        relatedBy: .equal,
        toItem: self,
        attribute: .top,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 0.0)
    self.btnWidth = NSLayoutConstraint(
        item: someButton,
        attribute: .width,
        relatedBy: .equal,
        toItem: self,
        attribute: .height,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 0.0)        


    self.addSubview(self.textfield)
    self.txtfieldLeading = NSLayoutConstraint(
        item: self.textfield,
        attribute: .leading,
        relatedBy: .equal,
        toItem: someButton,
        attribute: .trailing,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 5)
    self.txtfieldTrailing = NSLayoutConstraint(
        item: self.textfield,
        attribute: .trailing,
        relatedBy: .equal,
        toItem: self.doneButton,
        attribute: .leading,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: -5)
    self.txtfieldCenterY = NSLayoutConstraint(
        item: self.textfield,
        attribute: .centerY,
        relatedBy: .equal,
        toItem: self,
        attribute: .centerY,
        multiplier: 1.0,
        constant: 0.0)
}
}