iOS how to detect programmatically when top view controller is popped?

Question

Suppose I have a nav controller stack with 2 view controllers: VC2 is on top and VC1 is underneath. Is there code I can include in VC1 that will detect that VC2 has just be

Answer 1

I got the same situation but with slight more specific use case. In my case we wanted to determine if a VC1 is appeared/displayed when user tap on VC2's back button where VC2 is pushed on navigationController over VC1.

So I used help of snarshad's answer to customised as per my need. Here is the code in VC1's viewDidAppear in swift 3.

// VC1: ParentViewController
// VC2: ChildViewController

    override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        super.viewDidAppear(animated)

        if let transitionCoordinator = navigationController?.transitionCoordinator,
            let fromVC = transitionCoordinator.viewController(forKey: UITransitionContextViewControllerKey.from),
            let toVC = transitionCoordinator.viewController(forKey: UITransitionContextViewControllerKey.to),
            fromVC is ChildViewController,
            toVC is ParentViewController {

            print("Back button pressed on ChildViewController, and as a result ParentViewController appeared")
        }
    }