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iOS

Posted by Enara L. Otaegi
Enara L. Otaegi
13,107 Points

awakeFromNib and the settings bundle

So, I'm reading iOS App Programming Guide, and I have a question to anyone who can answer me this. When we use storyboard and the app launches, the archive that stores the serialized attributes from the storyboard is loaded with the initWithCoder method. (I assume we don't have to do anything here) But, then the method awakeFromNib is called to load any object that has a default configuration or to restore an object to some previous state. So my question is, in the currency app where we create a settings bundle I changed the code to this

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    [self.view addGestureRecognizer:[[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(dismissKeyboard:)]];

}

- (void)awakeFromNib {
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(updateSettings:) name:NSUserDefaultsDidChangeNotification object:nil];
    [self setupDefaults];
}

and it works fine but is this efficient or the awakeFromNib is for loading another kind of configuration. Thank you!