loading custom appearance values - ios

Question

I would like to know in which function e.g viewDidLoad etc.. would be the best approach to load custom view properties like image border heights, color, all appearance.
For example I add custom values like these in cellForRowAtIndexPath which I think is not best way to do it:
// corner radius
cell.feedImageView.layer.cornerRadius = 10
// border
cell.feedImageView.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
cell.feedImageView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
cell.feedImageView.layer.masksToBounds = true
And these navigationBar appearance I load in viewDidLoad and i use it in many views:
navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor(red: 0.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, alpha: 0.5)
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil
navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
let fontDictionary = [ NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.white ]
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = fontDictionary
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor(red: 0.184, green: 0.996, blue: 0.855, alpha: 1.00)
So the question again, where should I load appearance values? I ask it because right now I am in situation where my image border is loading before image etc..
There are so many functions like viewDidLoadAppearance(), ViewDidload(). I've read many questions where they ask what is difference between them but I still do not know where is best to load appearance.

Answer 1

You have basically 3 different options.
1) You could get or set those values in the viewDidAppear() func, after they have been completely instantiated.
2) You could get or set them in the vieDidLayoutSubviews() function and set a bool to check if your task has been called.
var didConfigureUI = false
func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
if !didConfigureUI {
didConfigureUI = true
updateUI()
}
}
3) You could get or set them in the viewDidLoad using layoutIfNeeded():
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
xy.view.layoutIfNeeded() // <- This will update your initial view frames
updateUI()
}
And your func to do whatever:
func updateUI() {
//f.e feedImageView.layer.masksToBounds = true
}
And to do it in your cellForRowAtIndexPath, you would do something like this, using the layoutIfNeeded() as well.
cellForRowAtIndexPath {
let cell = tableView.blahblahcell
updateUICell(cell.feedImageView)
}
func updateUICell(imageView: UIImageView) {
imageView.layoutIfNeeded()
imageView.layer.cornerRadius = 10
imageView.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
imageView.layer.borderColor = UIColor.black.cgColor
imageView.layer.masksToBounds = true
}
And to answer the last question about the lifecircle:
The circle is:
init
UIViewController awakeFromNib
loadView // your pictureImageView is loaded here
UIView awakeFromNib
UIViewController viewDidLoad
viewWillAppear
viewDidAppear // the properties of your pictureImageView are available here