dismissview controller is not working inside splitView or tabBar controller - ios

Description: I have a Spilt view controller which has the masterController to display all the menu items and the secondary controller(DetailViewController1) is to display few details. Now I have DetailViewController2 which displays some other information.
Flow: SplitViewController which has the MasterViewController(table view for menu) -> DetailViewController1 -> DetailViewController2
Problem: If I present the DetailViewController2 using show segue then it is fine. If I use show detail segue then the navigation bar back button in the DetailViewController2 is not dismissing my DetailViewController2 to go back to the DetailViewController1.
Even if I use show segue it fails to dismiss. What I am doing wrong here?

You should use show only, Because Show detail segue replace the controller not push it
From Apple
Show Detail:
Present the content in the detail area. If the app is displaying a
master and detail view, the new content replaces the current detail.
If the app is only displaying the master or the detail, the content
replaces the top of the current view controller stack.
You can find more about it here
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-IB_storyboard/Chapters/StoryboardSegue.html

Use two navigation controllers as the MasterViewController and DetailViewController of the UISplitViewController.
Embed your MasterViewController and DetailViewController1 in the nav controllers.
In DetailViewController1, when 'More Detail' button is clicked (or whatever triggers navigation to DetailViewController2):
{
let secondVC = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "DetailViewController2") as! DetailViewController2
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(DetailViewController2, animated: true)
}
This will present DetailViewController2 and the nav controller will handle navigating back to DetailViewController1 for free.
More info, including other benefits of using dual nav controller approach, here: http://nshipster.com/uisplitviewcontroller/

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Bar item button not displayed at runtime but visible at design time in a modal view

I have being trying different things and looking around for a while without finding an answer to my problem. Maybe I'm doing something fundamentally wrong.
The sample application consists of:
A first view controller that displays a second view controller using a segue. This works fine.
A second view controller, in which I have simulated the display of a third view programmatically, which contains a bar item button (named "Done") that I would like to display.
The bar item button in the third view controller is not displayed at runtime but is displayed in IntefaceBuidler at design time.
This third view controller needs to be displayed modal.
What I'm doing wrong to display this bar item button?
A sample project illustrating the problem is available here.
Below a screen capture of the bar item button at design time:
Below a screen capture of the bar item button not showing at design time:
PS:
Please disregard the "Unknown class ThirdViewControlller in Interface Builder file.", since the ThirdViewController is displayed fine at runtime. Also, the "Done" button in the middle of the view works fine.
In SecondViewController you need to push the third onto the navigation controller stack like so:
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(thirdViewController, animated: true)
You are currently presenting it as a modal. Also, you've unnecessarily added a second UINavigationController to your storyboard (for the third view controller)
If you want to present a modal, then you'd need to embed the controller in a navigation controller:
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: thirdViewController)
self.present(navController, animated: false)
If you prefer to keep this within the storyboard, then you need to provide a identifier for the UINavigationController and insatiate that in your function.
The above button is a navigation bar item that will only be displayed on the navigation bar . For achieving your desired result , you first have to embed the navigation controller at least in your second viewcontroller and then you should do a push segue rather than modal . Navigation controller can be added by
whith your second viewcontroller selected go to Editor\Embed In\Navigation Controller
for pushing the viewcontroller programatically onto user navigation controller's stack use
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(nextViewController, animated: true)

Branching off from a tab bar controller?

I've got 3 view controllers. Two I have hooked up to a tab bar controller and one that I'm wanting to access when a user selects a cell on the second view controller in my tabbed views.
I'm wanting when the user hits "back" on the 3rd "detail" page for the user to be taken back to the 2nd view.
When I do this by just adding a button and segueing back to the 2nd VC, the tab bar is gone. I tried in my viewDidAppear to unhide the tab bar, but I guess going off of the tab bar controller messes up the navigation.
I tried creating a variable that was like "didHitBack" and on my "back" button on the 3rd view I'm creating a segue back to the Tab Bar Controller, and if "didHitBack" is true I do
_ self.tabBarController?.selectedIndex = 1
which takes me to the second page, but it's loading the first view in then going to the second page which looks bad.
I was thinking maybe there was a way to do "didHitBack" and setting the tab bar's initial view controller to the second one or something, but that all just seems very wrong.
Is there a "proper" way to do this?
To recap I have VC1 and VC2 that are hooked up to a Tab Bar Controller, I have a tableview on VC2 that on didSelectRow I'm going to VC3 which I do not want to be a part of the tabbed view controller, and when I hit back on VC3 I want to go back to VC2.
If you want to build a navigation stack, you should embed your view controller in a UINavigationController
So your tab bar would be hooked up to VC1 and NavVC. The root view controller of NavVC would be VC2.
You can then push a new view controller onto the stack using the navigation controller (or pop the view controller to go back) all within the confines of the tabBar.

Back button disappears on show segue

I've read several posts about this issue, but I've been troubleshooting and the previous solutions don't seem to do the trick (i.e. the solutions specify embedding only the parent controller in the navigation controller, which I've tried). To address it as per previous posts, I've removed the embedding of the other views in their own navigation controllers -- but can't then seem to physically draw the segue from one table view to another; or it doesn't show the back button...
Basically, the "Back" button disappears on segue. It isn't seen in the second TableViewController and the last ViewController (on the end). It reappears in the parent, obviously.
EDIT: When I remove the navigation controller from the other two views, then no navigation bar appears on those VCs at all. The bar completely disappears, although it appears on the first one. This is how I have it configured now.
New Storyboard
Navigation Controller follows the Stack theory. When you push something in the stack it will increment the top index count by 1 and pop something in the stack it will decrease the top index count by 1.
In the navigation controller, first controller will be your root viewController. Now When you push new view controller in navigation controller, your top index count will be 2. But you are not pushing the viewController in same navigation controller (let say Stack1) you are creating the new Navigation controller (let say Stack2).
So here you are setting the new controller as the root viewController for new navigation controller(Stack2) and there are no item to pop yet that is why it's not showing the back button.
To Solve these Problem remove the navigation controller from the second and third view controller.
To push you can use segue or you can do it programmatically.
Swift
let vc2 = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("ViewController2") as? ViewController2
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc2!, animated: true)
Objective C
ViewController2 *vc2 = [self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"ViewController2"];
[[self navigationController] pushViewController:vc2 animated:YES];
Navigation Controller Guideline
Edit
if you are not able to see the navigation bar on second VC
Make sure you are not hiding it by code in second VC.
Make sure you are pushing the second VC not presenting the VC.
Select VC in Interface Builder -> Attribute Inspector -> Top bar should be inferred.
if you are using segue then segue type(kind) should be Show.

swrevealviewcontroller navigation item and bar button missing

hello I have implemented SWRevealViewController in my swift app. The problem I am having is If I set SWRevealViewController as my initial ViewController all works fine. But If I launch this controller through code
let nav : UINavigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: self.storyboard!.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("swrevealviewcontroller") as UIViewController)
self.navigationController?.presentViewController(nav, animated: true, completion: nil)
the navigation Title and barButtonIcon Disappears which is in my case is a hamburger menu icon.
SWRevealViewController is connected to the HomeViewController. and I am initiating SWRevealViewController when user clicks the login Button.
If you need more information regarding the storyboard screenshot let me know. I'll upload here.
Updated:
storyboard
navigation controller's navigation bar will only show up for view controllers that are contained by that navigation controller. Here, you're presenting a modal view. It's not contained by the navigation controller.
If you want the navigation bar to continue to appear:
If it's purely a matter of style, put a navigation bar on the modal scene you're presenting in the interface builder.
If you need to modally present a view that should be contained in a navigation controller, then you need to present a navigation controller--not a view controller.
Finally, if the view you're presenting is intended to be part of the navigation controller's navigation stack, then you need to present it with a push, not a modal segue.
Update
Do like simple ,
and call the perform segue as
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:#"main" sender:self];
I solved my problem by pointing Navigation Controller first and Tab Bar Controller second. Please, see the picture below.
Hope this help!..Thanks...

Xcode IOS transition views with a tab view controller

I am developing an IOS app using Swift and have a tab view controller. I start the app at the SecondViewController to allow the user to insert their information, upon clicking save I would like to programmatically transition to a different view. When I use the following code, the view transitions however the tab bar disappears.
let storyBoard : UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle:nil)
let home = storyBoard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("home") as FirstViewController
self.presentViewController(home, animated:true, completion:nil)
Should I not be presenting the view and just using a different form like segue or something?
Again this is a tab bar controller.
Thanks
Using presentViewController method, your particular view controller get's displayed modally above your current tab bar and navigation stack.
To keep your tab bar visible you either have to push your new view controller on the current navigation stack by calling the method pushViewController(..) on your current navigation controller, or - this is actually the right thing in your particular situatuin, assuming that you defined you FirstViewController in your storyboard and connected it to the first tab in your UITabBarController— you can simply tell your tabBarController to select the particular segmentedIndex (in this case 0).
Something like this should help:
self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0

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