Add Swipe Gesture to all View controllers in the project - ios

I have set of 50 view controllers with back button. Now I need to add Left to Right swipe gesture for all view controllers in the project. When a swipe is triggered, I need to call back btn clicked event for respective view controller. It is difficult to add swipe gesture to each view controller. Is there any other way to do it with minimal changes to view controllers.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bharath G

Well these other guys have told you why you may not need to do this, but assuming you do (not using UINavigationController || supporting pre iOs7 ..) then surely the easiest way to add to all of them would be to make a new UIViewController subclass, add the swipeRecogniser in viewDidLoad or similar, and then modify each of your 50 other controllers so that they all inherit from this one (i.e. abstract superclass..)
I would always have an abstract superclass above UIViewController in a project with 50 or so, obviously there is plenty of code that can be shared

Create a YourViewController class and implement your SwipeGesture method in viewDidLoad method.
In your 50 viewcontrollers .h file:
#interface ViewController : YourViewController
Let all your 50 viewControllers inherit from your YourViewController.

It should work automatically if the back button is visible. If you are displaying a leftBarButtonItem instead of the back button, the gesture will not be present by default. Also, if you are using a UINavigationBar but not a UINavigationController, you won't see this functionality.
If you are using a UINavigationController and your view controller's navigation item contains a leftBarButtonItem, it's still possible to add functionality for the swipe left to right gesture of the navigation controller, by attaching a delegate to the navigation controller's interactivePopGestureRecognizer.
Note: The Swipe to Back feature is introduced with iOS 7(i Hope you are Developing App fos iOS 7 or later)

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I have 2 ViewControllers.
VC1 has a 2 views inside it.
I want to get MenuUIVC to appear in one of my views belonging(child) to VC1.
I tried this code inside of VC1 but it didn't work.
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menuUIView = menuViewVC.view;
I expected to be able to see the MenuUIVC inside the view (menuUIView) which is a child of VC1. I have the IBOutlets all hooked up on the storyboard.
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Links for description:
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If you are using UIView, then why don't you use
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Another option is to use childviewcontrollers.
See these links for example:-
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Using container or child view controller, gives you full fledge option of using View Controller properties, which you will not get in UIView.
Say for example, you can you orientation delegate methods, which you can't using in UIView class directly.
Hope this can help you.
Cheers
Sanjay
you can go for container view if you want to do it using IBOutlets & storyborad.
but if you want to do it using code then follow the below steps :
initialise & create parent view controller.
then add required child view as a subview with negative frame.
now change the frame with UIView animation whenever required. & do add tap gesture recogniser on part of screen other than the child view to remove it back to the initial position.

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Harshitha
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The fact that you're using a storyboard doesn't matter, storyboards are just a way to define your view controllers and navigations via segues. If you're doing a custom animation, your View Controller still segues as normal, it just does so with a custom animation (instead of one of the stock ones, like a Navigation Controller "push" or the various Modal VC presentations), which you provide via an animation controller - an object that conforms to UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning.
Storyboard, or XIB? They are different.
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Note the Y coordinate of the view when it is at the location you want it. Then use the size inspector to change the y coordinate of the view to the bottom of the view. (768 for a landscape iPad app, 1024 for a portrait iPad app, etc.)
Then attach a swipe gesture recognizer to your VC's content view, and in action for the swipe gesture, use a UIView animation method (animateWithDuration:animations: or a similar method to move the view's frame.origin.y up to the y desired y coordinate.

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I have a storyboard that uses a UITabBarController with 3 tabs.
I want to use SWRevealViewController to add the sliding menu functionality.
Opening the menu will slide the hole UITabBarController.
Did anyone managed to implement this kind of behaviour with storyboards UITabBarController and SWRevealViewController?
Thank you
Managed to integrate it. Below are the steps to do it:
Add a new UIViewController to the storyboard.
Remove the content view from the newly added UIViewController
Make sure "Is Initial View Controller" is checked in IB for the newly added UIViewController
Set the custom class for the newly added UIViewController to SWRevealViewController
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Connect it to the UITabBarController - give the segue "sw_front" identifier in IB. This must be a reveal controller segue type.
You should use a navigation controller before tab bar controller(sw_front > navigation controller > tab bar controller).
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Because I'm using Core Data and I was told that calling
[[NSApp delegate]managedObjectContext];
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I have a storyboard with a navigation controller that leads to an UIVIewController that I want to reuse. That UIVIewController has a ParentUIViewController that has all the basic functionalities for all the UIVIewControllers that I am reusing.
Currently I am copying and pasting (meh) and then I change the class of the UIViewController to the ChildUIVIewController that I want to use (ChildUIViewController extends ParentUIViewController).
But this sounds like a bad solution. Everytime I want to change the ParentViewController visually I need to update, manually, all other ChildViewControllers.
I have tried to create a xib for the ParentViewController but the xib isn't loaded because I need a xib with the name of the ChildViewController. I have created it and then said the class is the ParentViewController but it crashes in the segue.
EDIT
I have created an example of the status of my problem
https://github.com/tiagoalmeida/storyboardexample
Note that the ParentViewController has a set of logic way more complicated that is not illustrated there. Also note that I am also using a TableView. I hope that this can illustrate the problem.
Keep the logic on the parentViewController and the UI Part on the child UIViewControllers. If you need to create a new UIViewController, you will create a child that will have a corresponding XIB (or get rid of XIBs and create the interface by hand).
Have you considered looping back into the same UIViewController via a "phantom button"?
Have a look at this: UIStoryboard Power Drill, Batteries included
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I use ECSlidingViewController in my App. There're four ViewControllers come with the sample code. These four ViewControllers corresponds to four option in the "MenuViewContoller".
Now I want to add a TableViewController in the "FirstTopViewController". Each cell of this TableViewController leads to a ViewController which is not one of the four predefined ViewControllers.
I saw that ECSlidingViewController ships a 'SampleTableViewController". But I don't know how to 'transient' to this ViewController.
I did work with UINavigationController before. I know how to push a view controller to NavigationController. I don't know how to cooperate UINavigationController with ECSlidingViewController.
Thanks a lot.
Here is a demonstration:
http://www.penghou.net/file/question.png
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