Custom UILabel class does not change properties? - swift

Question

I have a custom UILabel class. I create one CustomLabel and positioned it but it doesn't have properties that I gave in the custom UILabel class.
class CustomLabel: UILabel {
override func awakeFromNib() {
backgroundColor = #colorLiteral(red: 0, green: 0, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
textColor = #colorLiteral(red: 1.0, green: 1.0, blue: 1.0, alpha: 1.0)
textAlignment = .center
}
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
}
required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
fatalError("init(coder:) has not been implemented")
}
}
and here is my ViewController
class Controller: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let lblPos = CGRect(x: view.frame.size.width / 2 - 75 , y: 100, width: 150 , height: 30)
let samsungLbl = CustomLabel(frame: lblPos)
samsungLbl.text = "Samsung"
view.addSubview(samsungLbl)
}
}

Answer 1

The problem is that you set properties at awakeFromNib method. From Apple Documentation
awakeFromNib()
The nib-loading infrastructure sends an awakeFromNib message to each object recreated from a nib archive
So this method is called when your object is loaded from a .xib file or a storyboad. Since you creating your object programmatically by calling init(frame: CGRect), your awaktFromNib is never called.
You need to move your setup code into another method and call from the initializer.
func setupStyle() {
backgroundColor = #colorLiteral(red: 0, green: 0, blue: 0, alpha: 1)
textColor = #colorLiteral(red: 1.0, green: 1.0, blue: 1.0, alpha: 1.0)
textAlignment = .center
}
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
self.setupStyle()
}