Why are interface changes done in viewWillAppear not invisible?

Question

I have a modal ViewController acting as a custom alert in my app.

In it, I have a UIButton title set to some "default text" in Interface Builder.

In my viewWillAppear method, I am setting the button title to "new text".

When I run the app and alert VC appears, I can visibly see the transition of UIButton from "default text" to "new text".

I thought all processing in viewWillAppear() was supposed to be invisible. Any thoughts? (I do not want to make these changes in ViewDidLoad.)

If you've got a button whose title you want to set before it appears, you should put the code in `viewDidLoad`, which gets called first when the VC loads. Throw some print statements in and you can see for yourself the order methods are called in. — Adrian, Jan 17 '18 at 22:38

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '18 at 22:46

What you can do is create an instance of the class of the viewcontroller (Modal) and set the value of a variable that saves the title and launch that new instance. and in the didload do the assignment

class ViewControllerOne : UIViewController{
    if let modalVC = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "modal") as? MYViewController {
        modalVC.titleLbl.text = "New title"    
        self.present(modalVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }

}

class MYViewController : UIViewController{      
    @IBOutlet weak var titleLbl: UILabel!
    ...
}

Sorry my english is not very good

Why are interface changes done in viewWillAppear not invisible?

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