How to use a UISplitViewController as a Modal View Controller?

Question

I am trying to display a UISplitViewController presenting it as a Modal View Controller in my iPad app. I manage to have it display, but for some reason there is a gap to th

Answer 1

That answer is not actually correct, because it not valid any longer since iOS8 and if you need to support even iOS7 you can do that like you put actually modally UIViewController which has a container as SplitView.

let mdSplitView = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("myDataSplitView") as! MyData_SplitVC
    self.addChildViewController(mdSplitView)

    mdSplitView.view.bounds = self.view.bounds
    self.view.addSubview(mdSplitView.view)
    mdSplitView.didMoveToParentViewController(self)