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viewDidLoad getting called twice on rootViewController at launch


Anyone know why this root View Controller's viewDidLoad is being called twice at launch? It's driving me nuts!

here's the stack trace from first time through viewDidLoad:

#0  0x0000276a in -[RootViewController viewDidLoad] at RootViewController.m:71
#1  0x3097548f in -[UIViewController view]
#2  0x00002734 in -[RootViewController initWithCoder:] at RootViewController.m:39
#3  0x30ab5ce4 in -[UIClassSwapper initWithCoder:]
#4  0x30514636 in _decodeObjectBinary
#5  0x30514035 in _decodeObject
#6  0x30ab5a1d in -[UIRuntimeConnection initWithCoder:]
#7  0x30514636 in _decodeObjectBinary
#8  0x30515f27 in -[NSKeyedUnarchiver _decodeArrayOfObjectsForKey:]
#9  0x305163b0 in -[NSArray(NSArray) initWithCoder:]
#10 0x30514636 in _decodeObjectBinary
#11 0x30514035 in _decodeObject
#12 0x30ab4dde in -[UINib instantiateWithOptions:owner:loadingResourcesFromBundle:]
#13 0x30ab6eb3 in -[NSBundle(NSBundleAdditions) loadNibNamed:owner:options:]
#14 0x308f85f1 in -[UIApplication _loadMainNibFile]
#15 0x30901a15 in -[UIApplication _runWithURL:sourceBundleID:]
#16 0x308fef33 in -[UIApplication handleEvent:withNewEvent:]
#17 0x308fad82 in -[UIApplication sendEvent:]
#18 0x309013e1 in _UIApplicationHandleEvent
#19 0x32046375 in PurpleEventCallback
#20 0x30245560 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific
#21 0x30244628 in CFRunLoopRunInMode
#22 0x308f930d in -[UIApplication _run]
#23 0x309021ee in UIApplicationMain
#24 0x000022e4 in main at main.m:14

and the second time:

#0  0x0000276a in -[RootViewController viewDidLoad] at RootViewController.m:71
#1  0x30ab50cd in -[UINib instantiateWithOptions:owner:loadingResourcesFromBundle:]
#2  0x30ab6eb3 in -[NSBundle(NSBundleAdditions) loadNibNamed:owner:options:]
#3  0x308f85f1 in -[UIApplication _loadMainNibFile]
#4  0x30901a15 in -[UIApplication _runWithURL:sourceBundleID:]
#5  0x308fef33 in -[UIApplication handleEvent:withNewEvent:]
#6  0x308fad82 in -[UIApplication sendEvent:]
#7  0x309013e1 in _UIApplicationHandleEvent
#8  0x32046375 in PurpleEventCallback
#9  0x30245560 in CFRunLoopRunSpecific
#10 0x30244628 in CFRunLoopRunInMode
#11 0x308f930d in -[UIApplication _run]
#12 0x309021ee in UIApplicationMain
#13 0x000022e4 in main at main.m:14

Solution

  • Weird. I haven't seen this particular case, but in general, you ought to assume that viewDidLoad can be called multiple times. It'll get called whenever a nib file that references that controller gets loaded.

    For a simple app with only one nib, that shouldn't happen. But in a more-complex app that can load and unload view controllers, this happens all the time.