RESideMenu: Add new viewcontrollers before RESideMenu - ios

Question

I am using RESideMenu in my application. But I need to add login and registration viewcontrollers before the RESideMenu.
Is it possible, if yes then how can I do that ?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

There are many ways to do this. The most common is you have a loginView controller and then in the app delegate you can write something like this in the app delegate:
if([[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] valueForKey:#"AlreadyLogin"])
{
// So, here user already login then set your root view controller, let's say `SecondViewController``
SecondViewController *secondViewController = [storyBoard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"SecondViewController"];
// then set your root view controller
self.window.rootViewController = secondViewController;
}
else
{
// It means you need to your root view controller is your login view controller, so let's create it
LoginViewController *loginViewController= [storyBoard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"LoginViewController"];
self.window.rootViewController = loginViewController;
}
Credit: Skip view if user already logged

Answer 2

Yes it is very possible.
Solution A:
After successful login/sign up, do:
[UIApplication sharedApplication].window.rootViewController = [[RESideMenu alloc] init...];
Solution B:
Place your login/signup view controllers in the main content portion of the RESideMenu, and disable the two side menus until the user is signed in.
Solution C:
Embed the RESideMenu in a UINavigationController and optionally hide the navigation bar.
For more info I recommend researching "view controller containment" as that is the pattern used by RESideMenu, UINavigationController, and other types of "container" view controllers.
I hacked together a quick example of Solution C and it seems to work fine:
#implementation LoginViewController
- (void)viewDidLoad {
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeRoundedRect];
button.frame = CGRectMake(50, 50, 100, 100);
[button setTitle:#"Login" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button addTarget:self action:#selector(goToRESideMenu) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[self.view addSubview:button];
self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
}
- (void)goToRESideMenu {
UIViewController *redViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
redViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
UIViewController *greenViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
greenViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
UIViewController *blueViewController = [[UIViewController alloc] init];
blueViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
RESideMenu *sideMenu = [[RESideMenu alloc] initWithContentViewController:redViewController
leftMenuViewController:greenViewController
rightMenuViewController:blueViewController];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:sideMenu animated:YES];
}
#end
The result looks like this: