I am using this code
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let controller = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "PrintMainViewController")
self.navigationController!.pushViewController(controller, animated: true)
and also added:
self.tabBarController?.tabBar.isHidden = false
If I understand your hierarchy correctly you have a tab bar controller which has navigation controllers in it. So basically any of the tabs can push additional view controllers and tab bar is still visible.
Now you want to push some new controller on the currently selected view controller in the tab bar and you want to do it from another part of the app, another view controller that has no relation to tab bar.
The quickest way to do that is to expose a static instance of your tab bar view controller. This will only work if you always have only 1 tab bar controller in your application (probably 99% of the applications).
First add a current instance to your tab bar view controller:
class MyTabBarViewController: UITabBarController {
static private(set) var currentInstance: MyTabBarViewController?
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
MyTabBarViewController.currentInstance = self
}
}
So when view loads a static value is assigned and can now be accessed anywhere in your project via MyTabBarViewController.currentInstance.
The rest is then just accessing the currently selected view controller and pushing a new view controller. Something like this should do:
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let controller = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "PrintMainViewController")
(MyTabBarViewController.currentInstance?.selectedViewController as? UINavigationController)?.pushViewController(controller, animated: true)
You must push in TabBarController
self.tabBarController?.pushViewController(controller, animated: true)
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Steps:
Embedd a navigation controller to entry point controller(ViewController.swift) of main application.
Set entry point to navigation controller.
Add an extra view controller in storyboard and link it to ViewController1.swift file.
Call this function from IB action of ViewController file.
func addChildController(childController : UIViewController) {
let navigation = UINavigationController.init(rootViewController: childController)
navigation.view.frame = self.view.frame
navigation.willMove(toParent: self)
self.addChild(navigation)
navigation.beginAppearanceTransition(true, animated: true)
self.view.addSubview(navigation.view)
navigation.endAppearanceTransition()
navigation.didMove(toParent: self)
}
Result: - Extra space comes between the navigation bar and the below UI, which ties with safe area of view controller.
If you already have your view controller embedded in a Navigation Controller, you should use the same for your child view controllers.
In your case, you have added a Navigation Controller through storyboard, then in func addChildController(childController : UIViewController) { you are adding a new navigation controller again.
I think instead of using this addChildController(), you should use this for pushing next view controller:
extension UIViewController {
func pushVC(vcName : String) {
let vc = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: Bundle.main).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: vcName)
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
}
}
I've separated my views into multiple storyboards to make managing the project as a team much easier. The only problem is that I want to have the navigation bar across all of my different view controllers. I embedded the first view controller in a navigation controller which added the navigation bar. In my second storyboard, I wanted to constrain a view to the navigation bar, however, since this view controller isn't embedded in a navigation controller, there isn't anything to constrain the view to. I put a navigation bar without a navigation controller to constrain to, however, when I perform the segue from the first storyboard, this results in two navigation bars. How do I make this so that I can constrain the view to the navigation bar without having two of them? Thanks in advance!
You can go from on view controller to another by three way:-
First using segue as you are already doing
second You can Present your view controller by
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "MyStoryboardName", bundle: nil)
let controller = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "someViewController")
self.present(controller, animated: true, completion: nil)
Third You can Navigate View controller by
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "MyStoryboardName", bundle: nil)
let controller = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "someViewController")
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(controller, animated: true)
I'm not sure your problem. I guess that you want to use ONE navigation bar to constrain many UIViewController in different Storyboard. Here is my answer.
Step 1: Set up Storyboard ID in each UIViewController
Step 2: push new UIViewController
func switchNextView() {
let storyboardName:String = "xxxxxx"
let storyboardId:String = "xxxxx"
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: storyboardName, bundle: nil)
let vc: UIViewController =
storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: storyboardId) as!
UIViewController
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
}
I have created a TabBarController with 4 UIViewControllers. However, when I want to show one of the ViewControllers in the TabBarController with:
func gotoMainAppVC()
{
let mainVC:SearchVC = SearchVC()
self.present(mainVC, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
I only get a plain black screen. What am I doing wrong?
This is not how any of this works.
I am not sure what self is in your context but I expect it is either a tab bar controller or one of the view controllers on the tab bar.
By calling present it means you want to present a view controller on a current one which by default brings a new fullscreen view controller from bottom upwards.
Since you have created a new instance of view controller by calling SearchVC() this is not the view controller that you see in your storyboard. You may create any instances of any of your view controllers but in your case if you designed SearchVC in a storyboard you want to actually use that version of it. To do so you need to set storyboard id inside your storyboard. After you have done that you should initialise it as using:
UIStoryboard(name: <#T##String#>, bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: <#T##String#>)
as in
let mainVC:SearchVC = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "TheIDIHaveSet") as! SearchVC
But again this will not give you the view controller that is inside your tab bar but create a new instance. And it will not instert it as one of the tabs but present a new full screen view controller.
On clicking a button I display a view controller using the following code:
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: locationVC)
navController.navigationBar.barTintColor = StyleHelper.navBarColor()
navController.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
navController.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(image: UIImage(named: "back_arrow"), style: .Plain, target: locationVC, action: nil)
self.presentViewController(navController, animated: true, completion: nil)
But the back button does not appear on the locationVC
What am I doing wrong? Please help
Multiple issues with code.
Issue 1:
You should update viewController's bar button item and not navigationController's bar button item.
So this is wrong
navController.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem
Whats correct
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem
Issue 2:
The above code won't work because your current viewController is not pushed by any other VC so it cant show back button. What you need is leftBarButtonItem
So in your VC you can write
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Abcd", style: .done, target: self, action: yourSelectorHere)
}
O/P:
Back button only appears for view controllers in the navigation stack.
you creating new navigation controller stack and making locationVC as root controller so there won't be any view controller to go back.
If you push another view controller to the navigation stack then you will get back button.
In a horizontally regular environment, the view controller is
presented in the style specified by the modalPresentationStyle
property. In a horizontally compact environment, the view controller
is presented full screen by default. doc: presentViewController
So, if you use present a view controller it will not show in navigation controller thus no back button
For this case you need to push view controller.
From storyboard:
let storyBoard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let vc = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier:
"newViewController") as! YourViewController
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
Programmatically
let vc = YourViewController()
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
presenting will present your VC on top of everything and not push it to the navigayionCOntroller.
You should push your VC to the NavigationController instead like so:
var rootViewController = self.window!.rootViewController as UINavigationController
let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
var profileViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("profile") as ProfileViewController
rootViewController.pushToViewController(profileViewController, animated: true)
presentViewController is a method that bring a modal view to your navigation, not part of the navigationController.
Instead you should use the pushToViewController method on the navigationController (and not creating a new one) like that :
if let navigationController = self.navigationController {
navigationController.pushViewController(locationVC, animated: true)
}
The presenting view controller is responsible for dismissing the view controller is presented. If you call this method on the presented view controller itself, UIKit asks the presenting view controller to handle the dismissal.
If you present several view controllers in succession, thus building a stack of presented view controllers, calling this method on a view controller lower in the stack dismisses its immediate child view controller and all view controllers above that child on the stack. When this happens, only the top-most view is dismissed in an animated fashion; any intermediate view controllers are simply removed from the stack. The top-most view is dismissed using its modal transition style, which may differ from the styles used by other view controllers lower in the stack.
If you want to retain a reference to the view controller's presented view controller, get the value in the presentedViewController property before calling this method.
#IBAction func backButtonAction(_ sender: UIButton) {
self.dismiss(animated: true)
}
More: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiviewcontroller/1621505-dismiss
I have an application with 5 tabs(and a UITabBarController). I have more view controllers which can be shown when user clicks buttons etc. Right now I'm trying to push a view controller in the first tab. When I use the following code, the new view controller completely replaces both the tab bar and the previous view controller so the only view controller that is shown is the new one and there's no way to go back. Here's my code:
#objc func openSettingsPage() {
let vc = UIStoryboard(name: "SettingsPage", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "Settings") as! SettingsViewController
self.tabBarController?.show(vc, sender: self)
}
I've also tried:
let vc = UIStoryboard(name: "SettingsPage", bundle: nil).instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "Settings") as! SettingsViewController
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
Nothing happens when doing that. trying print(self.navigationcontroller) prints "nil" so apparently it doesn't find a navigation controller even though the view controller I'm writing the code in is embedded in a navigation controller