Given a view, how do I get its viewController?

Question

I have a pointer to a UIView. How do I access its UIViewController? [self superview] is another UIView, but not the

Answer 1

For debug purposes only, you can call _viewDelegate on views to get their view controllers. This is private API, so not safe for App Store, but for debugging it is useful.

Other useful methods:

• _viewControllerForAncestor - get the first controller that manages a view in the superview chain. (thanks n00neimp0rtant)
• _rootAncestorViewController - get the ancestor controller whose view hierarchy is set in the window currently.