Dismiss and Present View Controller in Swift

Question

Hi I\'m trying to present a viewcontroller and dismiss my current modal view but this code is not working

self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion         


        

Answer 1

you can't do that because when the UIViewController A calls the UIViewController B and the first controller is dismissed then the two controllers are nil.

You need to have a UIViewController as a base, in this case MainViewController is the base. You need to use a protocol to call the navigation between controllers.

you can do using protocol let say for example as bellow:-

In to your viewController setting Protocol :

    protocol FirstViewControllerProtocol {
    func dismissViewController()
}

class FirstViewController: UIViewController {
    var delegate:FirstViewControllerProtocol!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Do any additional setup after loading the view.
    }

    override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
        super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
        // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
    }


    @IBAction func goBack(sender: AnyObject) {
        self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true) { 
            self.delegate!.dismissViewController()
        }
    }

Now in your main view controller

class MainViewController: UIViewController, FirstViewControllerProtocol {

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}


@IBAction func goToFirstViewController(sender: AnyObject) {
    let viewController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier(String(FirstViewController)) as! FirstViewController
    viewController.delegate = self
    self.presentViewController(viewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}



//MARK: Protocol
func dismissViewController() {
    if let viewController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier(String(SecondViewController)){
        self.presentViewController(viewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

Code example with storyboard:

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