Interface Builder - Failed to load designables from path (null)

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Jake picture Jake · Feb 8, 2015 · Viewed 25.8k times · Source

I have some custom controls I have created and I'm them using in a new project. However, I keep getting errors in interface builder:

Failed to update auto layout status: Failed to load designables from path (null)

or

Failed to render instance of <control>: Failed to load designables from path (null)

I've tested out the controls in another project and they seem to render correctly in interface builder, but I cannot get them to work in the current project. What causes this error and how might I fix it?

Thanks in advance...

Answer

i89 picture i89 · Jul 30, 2015

I had the same issue. I use cocoapods and there is a pod which uses designables. So the trick was to add 'use_frameworks!' to the Podfile. do a 'pod update' reopen the xcode project and the error message shouldn't show up.

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