.NIB

📌 A .NIB format interpretation is ordinarily associated with a file build-up generated and opened by Interface Builder, a solid software development package (included with Apple Xcode) tightly focused on building sophisticated compound user interfaces for Mac OS X designed products. Precisely, the .NIB methodology saves and opens up a relevant user interface component such as a view or a window in addition to buttons, text fields, and other interactive UI components. Considering the fact that .NIB file entities are not crucial and vital for Mac OS X tools and services, they are broadly utilized since designing interfaces visually in the Interface Builder bundle is frequently simpler and clearer than creating them in the programmable approach. Since the outcome introduction, release, and deployment of the revision 3 of Interface Builder package, the .XIB specification pattern has been implemented, which stores the identical data as a .NIB branch node. However, it utilizes a different text-shaped file view.

How to open an .NIB file?

📌 All of the major, global .NIB file extension patterns can be visualized, opened, and examined by Apple Xcode and Apple Interface Builder snap-ins, available for freeware download from the official Mac App Store.