Tap tab bar to scroll to top of UITableViewController

Question

Tapping the tab bar icon for the current navigation controller already returns the user to the root view, but if they are scrolled way down, if they tap it again I want it t

Answer 1

I was using this View hierarchy.

UITabBarController > UINavigationController > UIViewController

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I got a reference to the UITabBarController in the UIViewController

tabBarControllerRef = self.tabBarController as! CustomTabBarClass
tabBarControllerRef!.navigationControllerRef = self.navigationController as! CustomNavigationBarClass
tabBarControllerRef!.viewControllerRef = self

Then I created a Bool that was called at the correct times, and a method that allows scrolling to top smoothly

var canScrollToTop:Bool = true

// Called when the view becomes available
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    canScrollToTop = true
}

// Called when the view becomes unavailable
override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
    canScrollToTop = false
}

// Scrolls to top nicely
func scrollToTop() {
    self.collectionView.setContentOffset(CGPoint(x: 0, y: 0), animated: true)
}

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Then in my UITabBarController Custom Class I called this

func tabBarController(tabBarController: UITabBarController, didSelectViewController viewController: UIViewController) {

    // Allows scrolling to top on second tab bar click
    if (viewController.isKindOfClass(CustomNavigationBarClass) && tabBarController.selectedIndex == 0) {
        if (viewControllerRef!.canScrollToTop) {
            viewControllerRef!.scrollToTop()
        }
    }
}

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The Result is identical to Instagram and Twitter's feed :)