I'm using a Container View control through interface builder to embedded a UINavigationController and its stack into my app.
The problem I'm having is that the back button does not work on all pushed VCs over the Root VC.
You press the automatically generated back button on these pushed VCs and nothing happens.
Edit:
There is no code written. Its all set up in IB at the moment.
As you can see...Container View with its embedded view controller set to the UInavigation Controller. The whitespace on the left will be a swipeable menu eventually - thats the reason for the set up. Then there's a next button on the root RV which segues to a second view controller.
That state is shown above. Pressing the back button (labelled test) does nothing. Normally it would pop the top view controller and go back to 'test'. Clearly the embedding is interfering with the normal UINavigiationController function somehow.
I just dont know how.
Another Edit:
Making a custom button on that top View Controller and manually calling
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:true];
Actually works and the top view controller is removed from the stack.
So the question is why does the back button not work?
I had a similar problem when I forgot that I added a tap gesture recognizer to my navigation bar. The back button actually received touches (pushed state) but as in your example did nothing. A custom button on the navigation bar worked though.
Once I removed the gesture recognizer the back button worked again.
Maybe some other view/or gesture recognizer in your container view is catching the touches...
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I am new in iOS development and in Swift. I have a question. I added in one of the ViewController NavigationController. But I have some problems with back button cause it doesn't appear on other Views. I tried with self.pushViewController() and with self.present() but it doesn't work. If I mark in NavigationController Is Initial View Controller then everything is fine but I don't want it because then app starts with this screen(where I have NavigationController).
Please help me, what I should to add or to write?
This is an image of my storyboard
And this is what I have if I run and go to another ViewController, as you can see I don't have navigation bar and back button.
You got 2 options :
1) Add a navigation controller in the root ViewController, Hide throughout except the last one. Make sure you push the last VC so Back option will be there by default
self.navigationController.pushToViewController(BarCodeViewController)
2) Use a custom View on top of last viewController add a custom button to that view. But this time present it from previous ViewController
self.present(BarCodeViewController)
when back button clicked dismiss it by adding target to the button. self.dismiss()
The device runs ios8 and the back button is properly shown and I can use a swipe gesture on the device to navigate the view stack.
On the simulator (running ios9), the back button will not appear, and the swipe gesture does not work.
UPDATE: I have updated the device to use ios9, the back button vanished.
I have now found the source for this.
In the storyboard, the navigation controllers were cascaded.
The segue of the first controller stacked another full view controller, not just the view. On that view controller, the navigation was not properly initialized.
On ios7/ios8, this made no difference, the root-navigation controller's navigation bar was used. In ios9, it seems, that the navigation bar of the initial navigation controller is overwritten or it requires specific segues to the parent navigation view.
If the swipe feature is also dependent on the missing navigation bar initialisation, I have not tested. I have removed the superfluous navigation controllers and directed the segues directly to the views and now it works.
I have an app that has a toolbar, but I don't want the bar at the top, in order to free more viewing space. Therefore I have decided not to use a navigation controller. I'd like to add a back button to the toolbar. How would I go about this?
Adding the button is easy enough, and setting the action to performSegueWithIdentifier is all fine, but what happens is that the previous view just gets loaded again, rather than show it as it was, like a true back button. So if I tap on the 10th row on a tableView and go to a new page, when I press the back button it loads the view from the top again, instead of showing it as where I scrolled down to last.
Even though you don't want a UINavigationBar, you do want a UINavigationController in this case, because it manages the 'back stack' exactly the way you want it. Just hide its navigation bar by setting its navigationBarHidden property to true (in the Storyboard or in the viewDidLoad function of the root view controller).
You can then use navigationController.popViewController(true) as normal, in response to the user clicking your custom back button.
I am doing a custom UINavigationController pop transition animation.
But having a strange bug, I've made a sample project to demonstrate the issue (Taken from https://github.com/objcio/issue5-view-controller-transitions)
An navigation-based app, 2 view controllers.
The first viewController has 2 bar button items on the navigationBar, a button in the middle of view to push to second viewController.
The second viewController has a left bar button item to pop to the first viewController.
If the second view controller has been dragged less than 50%, my custom animation will cancel the transition, and if it's over 50%, it'll finish the transition, pop the viewController. (Just like the system default)
However, if the transition was cancelled, the navigation item's on the first view controller will be over-ridded.
The "back" item will appear on first view controller, and the right bar button item will disappear.
This is the video to demonstrate: https://youtu.be/qg2lUKsNtzk
And the source code is on github: https://github.com/JohnnyTseng/issue5-view-controller-transitions
Could somebody point out where the problem is? I've been debugging this issue for whole day. Thanks!
In iOS 7 Apple add new default navigation behavior. You can swipe from left border of the screen to go back on navigation stack.
you can stop this by putting this code in application delegate.
if ([self.navigationController respondsToSelector:#selector(interactivePopGestureRecognizer)]) {
self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
}
you can read more over here interactive pop gesture of navigation view controller
I have a TabBarApplication with four views in the main TabBarItem. The problem comes when I go to any of these views and click in any button to go to another view and when I go back by a button linked to the main view, the TabBarItem of the app disappear!!
For example, one view of the app is a tableView in which each element of the list is linked to his external view and it has a back button that should return to the tableView. All the segues are by modal, not push because push segue crash the application and by modal it runs correctly but the problem comes when I returned by clicking the back button of the NavigationItem in the header of the view to his main view and the TabBarItem of the app is not there, is empty.
Each tab should have the view controller set to a navigation controller, with the view controller you want set as the root view controller of the navigation controller. Now you can use push segues and the standard back button that will be added for you. This will bypass the issue (and work much better for you and users).
You current issue is likely related to not really ever going back. Instead, just always presenting new modal view controllers which replace any existing content on screen.