uilabel - Xcode6, iOS8 and (void)layoutSubviews

Question

I have custom UILabel which works fine on iOS6 and iOS7. But on iOS8 this label's (void)layoutSubviews method never get called. I create this label with initWithFrame, so this method should be called - and it's called on another iOS versions. What happens with autoLayout system in iOS8?

Answer 1

I just want to add this answer because the question title may lead a lot of ppl here with similar issues (like me).

With iOS 8 to 8.0.2 LayoutSubviews calls are unreliable. They may not be called ever or (in my case) are called in a loop.

Even though you should not do it, it was pretty safe to alloc stuff in LayoutSubviews, but with this buggy (?!) behaviour it can cause hard-to-trace bugs.

I don't know if 8.1 fixes all the issues but it will be some time until customer devices will run 8.1 and they do run 8.0.2 NOW