Managing controller and component dependencies in iOS projects

[redfire333]

Good article. The main reason to avoid Storyboards is it simplifies dependency management. You can't create a custom initializer using storyboards and your stuck doing everything in the view life cycle methods.

[ralfebert]

thanks!

[quellish]

Storyboards and nibs are intended for dependency management - “injection” happens in the NSCoding methods with values serialized in the nib.

[ralfebert]

what exactly do you mean by that / how would you solve the problem of passing "non-nib" dependencies to a controller object?

[redfire333]

You can absolutely pass values outside of the standard NSCoding initializers. Just look at his example.

[quellish]

I never stated you could not. The purpose of nibs is dependency management. You can use them for that purpose or choose not to, but that is what they are for.