How do I create variable number of ViewControllers within a PageViewController? - ios

Question

I have a UIPageViewController in a container that is supposed to show, at minimum, three pages; at maximum, six. The number of pages would be determined by the user before the PageViewController appears.
For a bigger picture, I'm trying to create a project management application that allows for an agile ticket creating and management system. The PageVC is supposed to flip through 3 to 6 columns depending on how many the user wants to go along with that project. As an example, if it's a simple project, they can just have three columns named: "Unassigned", "Assigned", and "Complete". More complex projects could, for example, have 5 columns, named: "Backlog", "Issues", "In Progress", "Review", "Done". Each one of those columns would have its own ViewController within the PageVC.
This is what my data model looks like, to get an idea of where I get the number of columns from (Project attribute named: "projectColumnCount"):-

Answer 1

you can use following ObjectiveC concept in Swift.
It is Advisable to create a content view controller initially and then to use Pageviewcontroller Delegate Methods to create other controllers.
you can check following delegate Methods of Pageviewcontroller for same
Delegate Methods for Pageviewcontroller are as below.
- (UIViewController *)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController viewControllerBeforeViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
{
NSUInteger index = ((PageContentViewController*) viewController).pageIndex;
if ((index == 0) || (index == NSNotFound)) {
return nil;
} index--;
return [self viewControllerAtIndex:index];
}
- (UIViewController *)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController viewControllerAfterViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
{
NSUInteger index = ((PageContentViewController*) viewController).pageIndex;
if (index == NSNotFound)
{
return nil;
}
index++;
if (index == [arrPage count]) {
return nil;
}
return [self viewControllerAtIndex:index];
}
you can use below method to create instance of ContentVC
- (PageContentViewController *)viewControllerAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index
{
if (([arrPage count] == 0) || (index >= [arrPage
count])) {
return nil;
}
// Create a new view controller and pass suitable data.
pageContentViewController = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"PageContentViewController"];
pageContentViewController.delagate = self;
pageContentViewController.pageIndex = index;
pageContentViewController.collselectedType = selectedType;
return pageContentViewController;
}
you can also Create Array of contentVC and can set that in Pageviewcontroller but it will consume more memory
you can set view conteollers array as below.
[self.pageViewController setViewControllers:viewControllers direction:UIPageViewControllerNavigationDirectionForward animated:NO completion:nil];