Add subview from nib or programmatically

Question

Just a concept question. What would you prefer doing and why, should you need to insert into a view a subview, would you rather have a nib file to add it or would you programatically insert it? I am talking about xcode 4.~ development using storyboards.

Regards, Guy.

Answer 1

That depends on your situation. If it's something very simple or something dynamic (variable number of buttons for example) then I would do it programmatically. If it's a complex but static view (something like a settings view) then I would try using IB.

Answer 2

I personally will do it programmatically if i need the view to be dynamic . But it can be done even with the view created in the xib file. I would prefer creating in xib if the the view needs no dynamism so that it would reduce my coding portion