I am writing an application for iOS. I have 3 buttons (of a custom UIButton subclass) in my view, each are added graphically through IB. I was running into a bug that I realized was coming from the fact that only one of the buttons' superview is self.view (where self is the ViewController). The other buttons belong to these things:
<_UILayoutGuide: 0x7f92d3d75d50; frame = (0 0; 0 0); hidden = YES; layer = <CALayer: 0x7f92d3d76070>>
I have absolutely no idea why they are being added to this subview instead of being direct subviews of self.view. While I could deal with the fact that they are not direct subviews with some extra code, I would like to know first why they aren't direct subviews.
EDIT:
I created an IBAction that gives the superview of the button when I click it, and when I click it, I get the view. However, when I try to look for the buttons in self.view.subviews, they're not there.
EDIT 2:
I have figured out that when the ViewController is in Any:Any, the subviews are returned just fine by self.view.subviews. If I switch it to Compact:Regular (which is what I need), all bets are off.
You need to get the subviews from self.view in viewDidLayoutSubviews() function, which is called to notify the view controller that its view has just laid out its subviews.