Get to UIViewController from UIView?

Question

Is there a built-in way to get from a UIView to its UIViewController? I know you can get from UIViewController to its UIView

Answer 1

Combining several already given answers, I'm shipping on it as well with my implementation:

@implementation UIView (AppNameAdditions)

- (UIViewController *)appName_viewController {
    /// Finds the view's view controller.

    // Take the view controller class object here and avoid sending the same message iteratively unnecessarily.
    Class vcc = [UIViewController class];

    // Traverse responder chain. Return first found view controller, which will be the view's view controller.
    UIResponder *responder = self;
    while ((responder = [responder nextResponder]))
        if ([responder isKindOfClass: vcc])
            return (UIViewController *)responder;

    // If the view controller isn't found, return nil.
    return nil;
}

@end

The category is part of my ARC-enabled static library that I ship on every application I create. It's been tested several times and I didn't find any problems or leaks.

P.S.: You don't need to use a category like I did if the concerned view is a subclass of yours. In the latter case, just put the method in your subclass and you're good to go.