PlaceHolderTextView is a IBDesignable subclass of UITextView with a placeholder behaving like a UITextfield, which means that if no text is present, the placeholder will be showing. This makes it easier to integrate UITextViews in combination of UITextFields where all the elements should have placeholders.
There is a full tutorial on how to build your custom IBDesignable controls for XCode6 here.
Just drag & drop the file PlaceholderTextView.swift into your project. Then in the Interface Builder, add a UITextView to any of your UIViewControllers.
Click on the Identity Inspector (the icon that looks like an id card or a user profile page on the utilities right panel). Write "PlaceholderTextView" in the "Class" field, and you are ready!
Use the Attribute Inspector to change the placeholder text and color. You can also change the corner radius for rounded edges, and set the width and color of the border around the PlaceholderTextView.
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