How to tell the active view controller when applicationDidBecomeActive is called?

Question

I feel I am missing a trick here...

I just want to call viewDidLoad or viewDidAppear on the current active view controller when applicationDidBecomeActive gets called, s

Answer 1

I would recommend using notifications.

In your app delegate's applicationdidBecomeActive method put in this code:

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] postNotificationName:@"appDidBecomeActive" object:nil];

In your current active view controller's init method subscribe to the notification.

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
                                         selector:@selector(updateStuff)        
                                             name:@"appDidBecomeActive" 
                                           object:nil];

Implement the "updateStuff" method in your controller and you should be able to do whatever you want when the app becomes active.