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iOS Build a Simple iPhone App with Swift 2.0 Improving Our User Interface Adding a Pop of Color

Welby Obeng
Welby Obeng
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Posted by Welby Obeng
Welby Obeng
20,340 Points

ViewController has a backing view and can be access through view....

ViewController has a backing view and can be access through view object.....How do you know that? and how do you know it can me access through view object. Is there a video that covered this that I missed?

1 Answer

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points
Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Basically what it's saying is that every view controller is tied to a view. This makes sense, right? A view controller needs a view to control. On every view controller, the view controller's view is accessible with the view property. You can access it like this:

let vc = UIViewController()

//This grabs the view property of the UIViewController object above and assigns it to vcView
let vcView: UIView = vc.view