Set UINavigationBar title from view contained within UIPageViewContoller - ios

Here is the problem I am having. I am unable to set the UINavigationBar title for the views I have contained within a UIPageViewController.
The basic architecture of the app is as follows.
The root view controller for the app is a UITabBarController, with 5 navigation controllers contained in it.
The first Navigation controller, which is the one I am having issues with, contains a page view controller and this page view controller contains a number of UIViewControllers.
I want that, when I swipe through each of these view controllers, I can set the title in the UINavigationBar.
I have tried the following:
In the UIViewController contained within the page view controller, I have tried [self setTitle:#"Title I want"] - it didn't work.
Within the same UIViewController I have also tried [self.navigationBar.navigationItem setTitle:#"Title I want"] - this also didn't work.
I also tried setting the title for the View controller and attempted to extract that inside the PageViewControllers delegate method transitionCompleted, but this didn't work either.
I am wondering should I go back to the drawing board, and whether I am going down a rabbit hole with this view layout architecture. Has anyone else encountered this issue and if so, how did you solve it?
Edit: I must also add that I am doing this programatically.
Thanks for the help.

So, in the end I came up with a way to get this working, albeit not the cleanest solution that I wanted, but suitable for the purpose nonetheless.
I created a new class called PageLeafViewController and set up its init method as below. Child view controllers of a page view controller inherit from this. Here is the code.
Code sample
- (id)initWithIndex:(NSUInteger)index andTitle:(NSString *)navBarTitle; {
if(self = [super init]) {
self.index = index;
self.navBarTitle = navBarTitle;
}
return self;
}
These can be initialised like so before being added to the UIPageViewController.
Code sample
ChildViewController *aChildViewController = [[ChildViewController alloc] initWithIndex:1 andTitle:#"A Title"];
You will need to add a UIPageViewControllerDelegate to your interface for your page view controller. This is so you can implement the code for the delegate methods for when your view transition has been completed, and you need to set the title.
When the UIPageViewController loads, I grab the first view controller and get its title, setting it to the UINavigationController navigation bar
Code sample
PageLeafViewController *initialViewController = (PageLeafViewController *)[self viewControllerAtIndex:0];
[self.navigationItem setTitle:initialViewController.navBarTitle];
When a transition occurs, we set the title again to that of the new child view controller, when the transitioning into view has completed.
Code sample
- (void)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController didFinishAnimating:(BOOL)finished previousViewControllers:(NSArray *)previousViewControllers transitionCompleted:(BOOL)completed {
PageLeafViewController *currentLeaf = (PageLeafViewController *)[self.pageViewController.viewControllers lastObject];
[self.navigationItem setTitle:currentLeaf.navBarTitle];
}
Note: The above gets called automatically when a new child view controller has been displayed.
While this is not the most elegant solution it works for now, and I don't think its possible to call a function from within a child view to update the NavigationBar title, unless someone wants to correct me?
Hope this helps.

I don't think you're supposed to set the title on the navigationBar, have you tried self.navigationController.title = #"Title"; ?

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{
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This is puzzling me.
The context
The original tutorial I'm following.
Where the segue is added to the Main View via a custom segue:
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Here is an altered version of your project that illustrates how to use view controller containment. I think that will be a better solution than manually removing and adding subviews of the view controllers themselves. See the Apple docs for more info on custom view controller containers.
At first, let's see crash report. Please, do the following:
1. Add Exception Breakpoint
2. Edit it as in the picture
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#interface DestinationViewController <UITextFieldDelegate>
#end
And from storyboard add the class to UIViewController that has TextField
And make the connections for elements and TextField delegate.
Implement delegate methods.
You will not need the implementation of prepareForSegue: anymore. You will have two different classes with different elements. Only if you need to pass something from source to destination then you use prepareForSegue:
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Is there a method to know when a UIView was pushed by the user from the More view of a UITabbar ?
I have multiple views in a UITabBar and some end up in the More view where they are listed. Il'd like to be able to know when the view is pushed from this More view as opposed to when it is pushed from a UITabBarItem
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-(IBAction)hidePressed
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PushViewController doesn't do anything

This is the first time I'm trying to implement navigation from a tableView cell to another tableView using UINavigationController and it doesn't work for me.
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{
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}
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and declared in interface as:
#interface stockOptionViewController : UITableViewController {
}
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Please help me cause I have no clue and all sample codes found is based on using nib files.
Thank,
Kam
Your navigation controller should be the root view controller of the app delegate's window, and the first view controller should be the root view controller of the navigation controller, then you can push new controllers onto it.
Please see the documentation for UINavigationController.
At the moment, you are creating a navigation controller but not putting it anywhere, so asking it to push new view controllers is a little pointless. You have the right code, just not in the right order.
You can present view control modally without nav controller
mySecondViewController *secondVC = [[[mySecondViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped ] autorelease];
[self presentModalViewController:secondVC animated:YES];
UINavigationController should be the root view controller. In the current code, navCont is not on the view stack, so it won't work. Instead of pushing myFirstViewController in your appDelegate, push the UINavigationController to the stack and add myFirstViewController as its root view controller.

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