Swift SWRevealController without storyboard - ios

Question

I implemented SWRevealController with storyboard and everything works great, but now I would like to program the app without storyboard.
Can someone help me with the implementation? I have a FrontViewController and a MenuViewController. Do I need an extra SWRevealViewController for this and if yes, what do I have to code?
I know there is some information on SWRevealController but it is in Objective-C and I have some problems to write this in Swift 2.0.

Answer 1

You can do it as follow.
Create one function createSlidingMenu in appDelegate.
func createSlidingMenu(){
let frontViewController = //create instance of frontVC
let rearViewController = //create instance of rearVC(menuVC)
//create instance of swRevealVC based on front and rear VC
let swRevealVC = SWRevealViewController(rearViewController: rearViewController, frontViewController: frontViewController);
swRevealVC.toggleAnimationType = SWRevealToggleAnimationType.EaseOut;
swRevealVC.toggleAnimationDuration = 0.30;
//set swRevealVC as rootVC of windows
self.window?.rootViewController = swRevealVC!;
}
call createSlidingMenu in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions: and you are good to go.

Answer 2

This worked for me (in swift 3.1)
In the StoryBoard create MasterViewController, HomeViewController (embedded in UINavigationController) with storyboardId "HomeViewController", and MenuViewController (embedded in UINavigationController) with storyboardId "MenuViewController".
Create MasterViewController class and associate to UIViewController (MasterViewController) in Storyboard and implements SWRevealViewControllerDelegate protocol (see code)
import UIKit
class MasterViewController: UIViewController, SWRevealViewControllerDelegate {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let frontNavigationController:UINavigationController
let rearNavigationController:UINavigationController
let revealController = SWRevealViewController()
var mainRevealController = SWRevealViewController()
let menuTable = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "MenuViewController")as! MenuViewController
let homepage = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "HomeViewController") as! HomeViewController
frontNavigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: homepage)
rearNavigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: menuTable)
rearNavigationController.setNavigationBarHidden(true, animated: false)
revealController.frontViewController = frontNavigationController
revealController.rearViewController = rearNavigationController
revealController.delegate = self
mainRevealController = revealController
UIApplication.shared.delegate!.window?.rootViewController = mainRevealController
}
}
As alternative you could omit MasterViewController and:
implement SWRevealViewControllerDelegate in AppDelegate and
copy the code of viewDidLoad body wrote above in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

Answer 3

In addition to Hitendra, I modify the following code so I can put navigation in Home
AppDelegate.swift
func toHome() {
let frontViewController = HomeController()//create instance of frontVC
let rearViewController = MenuController() //create instance of rearVC(menuVC)
let swRevealVC = SWRevealViewController(rearViewController: rearViewController, frontViewController: frontViewController);
swRevealVC?.toggleAnimationType = SWRevealToggleAnimationType.easeOut;
swRevealVC?.toggleAnimationDuration = 0.30;
navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: swRevealVC!)
self.window?.rootViewController = navigationController
}
LoginController.swift, when user click login button
#objc private func login() {
let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
appDelegate.toHome()
return
}
HomeController.swift
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
setupLayout() // layout programmatically, I didn't put code here
let menuButton = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Menu", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(HomeController.menu))
self.revealViewController().navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = menuButton
}
#objc private func menu() {
revealViewController().revealToggle(self)
}