IBDesignable View Rendering times out

Question

I\'ve been working on an app on and off for a few months starting with the first XCode 6/iOS 8 beta release. One of my favorite features added is live rendering, made possib

Answer 1

For me, this error turned out to be due to a blocking call to a sqlite database (using CoreData) in one of my @IBInspectable properties.

My code originally queried the database and then used dispatchAsync to set the value of a label based on the results of the query. I changed it so that the query was also launched in the dispatchAsync block. The error immediately went away.

If anyone else is having trouble with this error, I suggest checking out any code that would be executed during the design phase (constructors or computed properties marked with @IBInspetable). If there is any blocking code (network operations, database access, etc.), it might be causing the timeout error. Hope this helps.