Opening a View Controller that is connected to a navigation Controller programatically - ios

I am using AKSwiftSlideMenu as basis for an app.
I have a view controller (HomeVC) that is connected to a navigation controller.
If the storyboard entry point is pointing to HomeVC then I get the menu of course, but my app needs to start without the menu and only after certain screens and tasks that are done i want to navigate to HomeVC and allow user access to the menu.
I noticed that if a i place a button on a starting view controller that does not have a connection to the navigation controller, and connect that button directly to the Navigation controller by drag+cntrl then pressing the button will get me from a view controller without a menu to HomeVC and show the menu.
How do i do that programmatically
Thanks in advance for any help
edit: I have tried the following code
let storyBoard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let newViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "Home") as! UINavigationController
self.present(newViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
which did not work resulting with the following err
Could not cast value of type 'myApp.HomeVC' (0x10a159280) to 'UINavigationController' (0x10cc2d3c8).

let newViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "Home") as! UINavigationController
s
"Home" is not a UINavigationController. Remove as! UINavigationController from this line and the error will go away.

thank you Daniel for telling me to instantiate navigation controller. Ended up giving navigation controller a storyboard id named ccontroller and the following code does what I needed
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "ccontroller") as! UINavigationController
self.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)

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Which works fine,
Now when I press a button I need to close current view and go back previous view, I tired
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But not works, I tried this too
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You are presenting your ViewController in a wrong way. The following line tells the application to no matter what ViewControllers you have opened, just throw it out and assign the UINavigationController what you are creating, as the rootViewController. So the reason your code, the dismiss, is not working because there are no other ViewControllers behind your current one.
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This usually goes into the beginning of the applications, where you define with which UIViewController you want to start your application. I believe you are calling the first code chunk you posted from a UIViewController. So what you need to do instead of creating a new UINavigationController and assigning it to the rootViewController, you just use the UIViewControllers navigation controller to push the next UIViewController.
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When I want to load another VC I was using the Action Segue "Show".
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I am trying to present the account viewcontroller on other storyboard. But when i present it, the the Tabbar doesn't shows up.
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Edit: Sorry for the wrong question. Let me rephrase it. Sorry i am new to programming and swift.
This is my 1st storyboard that when i tapped the "Upload CV" it goes to the the 2nd storyboard and presents my AccountViewController or as it is named identifier as "Account" but when i try to present it, the tabbar that contains the 3 tabbar items doesn't shows up. Just the navigationbar. How can i present the AccountViewController that has a the 3 tabbar items. Thank you so much for your responds.
Here is my first storyboard
Here is my second storyboard
and here is the code that presents my AccountViewController when i tapped the upload CV
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self.present(vc, animated: true)
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let vc = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "UAE")
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Give ViewController as a NavigationController then present it. It will show the tab bar.
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The Strings in double quotes always confuse me, so I think answer to this question needs some graphical presentation to clear this out.
For a banking app, I have a LoginViewController and a BalanceViewController. Each have their respective screens.
The app starts and shows the Login screen. When login is successful, app opens the Balance screen.
Here is how it looks:
The login success is handled like this:
let storyBoard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Balance", bundle: nil)
let balanceViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "balance") as! BalanceViewController
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According to #jaiswal Rajan in his answer. You can do a pushViewController like this:
let storyBoard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "NewBotStoryboard", bundle: nil)
let newViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "NewViewController") as! NewViewController
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(newViewController, animated: true)
So If you present a view controller it will not show in navigation controller. It will just take complete screen. For this case you have to create another navigation controller and add your nextViewController as root for this and present this new navigationController.
Another way is to just push the view controller.
self.presentViewController(nextViewController, animated:true, completion:nil)
For more info check Apple documentation:-
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIViewController_Class/#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40006926-CH3-SW96
OperationQueue.main.addOperation {
let storyBoard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let newViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "Storyboard ID") as! NewViewController
self.present(newViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}
It worked for me when I put the code inside of the OperationQueue.main.addOperation, that will execute in the main thread for me.
All other answers sounds good, I would like to cover my case, where I had to make an animated LaunchScreen, then after 3 to 4 seconds of animation the next task was to move to Home screen. I tried segues, but that created problem for destination view. So at the end I accessed AppDelegates's Window property and I assigned a new NavigationController screen to it,
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
let homeVC = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "HomePageViewController") as! HomePageViewController
//Below's navigationController is useful if u want NavigationController in the destination View
let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: homeVC)
appDelegate.window!.rootViewController = navigationController
If incase, u don't want navigationController in the destination view then just assign as,
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
let homeVC = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "HomePageViewController") as! HomePageViewController
appDelegate.window!.rootViewController = homeVC
The above code works well but if you want to navigate from an NSObject class, where you can not use self.present:
let storyBoard = UIStoryboard(name:"Main", bundle: nil)
if let conVC = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "SoundViewController") as? SoundViewController,
let navController = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController as? UINavigationController {
navController.pushViewController(conVC, animated: true)
}

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