UIStoryboard: What's the Correct Way to Get the Active Storyboard?

Question

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Answer 1

In Swift, you'd use the following syntax:

let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil) 

Note that passing nil to bundle will make the call refer to your main bundle automatically.

If you're in a view controller that you have on the Storyboard and want to instantiate the Storyboard from there directly, you can just do:

let storyboard: UIStoryboard? = self.storyboard // call this inside a VC that is on the Storyboard

Note that in the last case, self.storyboard will return an optional Storyboard (Storyboard?), so if you'd like to use it unwrap it like so:

if let storyboard = self.storyboard {
  // access storyboard here
}