ReusableViews

Why?

This extension package solves the following problems:

• Forces your team to adhere to standard practices by:
  • Making storyboard identifiers the same as their class names
  • Making UITableViewCell and UICollectionViewCell reuse identifiers the same as their class name
  • Making UICollectionView supplementary views and UITableViewHeaderFooterView reuse identifiers the same as their class name
• Removes the need to force unwrap or force cast cells/headers as you dequeue
• Removes the need to force unwrap or force cast UIViewControllers as you instantiate them from a storyboard

If you're a user of SwiftLint, you'll greatly appreciate the reduced number of warnings and no more need for snippets in the vein of:

guard let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "...", for: indexPath) as? MyCustomCellType else {
  fatalError("We didn't get the cell")
}

Example

To run the example project, clone the repo, and run pod install from the Example directory first.

Convenient Instantiation of a View From a Nib

Requires that your view conforms to NibLoadableView.

let view = MyNibLoadableView.create()

Instantiation of a UIViewController From a Storyboard

Requires that a class has the same storyboard identifier as its class name.

let myStoryboard: UIStoryboard = ...
let myCustomViewController = myStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerOfType(MyCustomViewController.self) as MyCustomViewController

Dequeueing and Registering a UITableViewCell

Requires that a class has the same reuse identifier as its class name. You must register your cell type first.

// Registration
tableView.register(MyCustomCellType.self)

// Dequeueing
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(for: indexPath) as MyCustomCellType

Dequeueing and Registering a UICollectionViewCell

Requires that a class has the same reuse identifier as its class name. You must register your cell type first.

// Registration
collectionView.register(MyCustomCellType.self)

// Dequeueing
let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(for: indexPath) as MyCustomCellType

Dequeueing and Registering a UITableViewHeaderFooterView

Requires that a class has the same reuse identifier as its class name. You must register your cell type first.

// Registration
tableView.register(MyCustomHeaderFooterView.self)

/// Dequeueing
let header = tableView.dequeueReusableHeaderFooterView(inSection: section) as MyCustomHeaderFooterView

Dequeueing and Registering a UICollectionView Supplementary View

Requires that a class has the same reuse identifier as its class name. You must register your view type first.

// Registration
collectionView.register(MyCustomSupplementaryView.self, forSupplementaryViewElementOfKind: .sectionHeader) // or .sectionFooter

// Dequeueing
let view = collectionView.dequeueReusableSupplementaryView(ofKind: .sectionHeader, for: indexPath) as MyCustomSupplementaryView // also takes .sectionFooter

Registering a view backed by a nib

Views backed by nibs must implement the NibLoadableView protocol. The protocol has a pre-defined extension, such that your view doesn't need to add any methods or properties.

class MyCoolCell: UITableViewCell, NibLoadableView {
  ...
}

Installation

ReusableViews is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "ReusableViews"

Author

Hesham Salman, hesham8@gmail.com

Twitter: @WhatsASoftware

License

ReusableViews is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.