Completion block for popViewController

Question

When dismissing a modal view controller using dismissViewController, there is the option to provide a completion block. Is there a similar equivalent for

Answer 1

I had the same issue. And because I had to use it in multiple occasions, and within chains of completion blocks, I created this generic solution in an UINavigationController subclass:

- (void) navigationController:(UINavigationController *) navigationController didShowViewController:(UIViewController *) viewController animated:(BOOL) animated {
    if (_completion) {
        dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(),
        ^{
            _completion();
            _completion = nil;
         });
    }
}

- (UIViewController *) popViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL) animated completion:(void (^)()) completion {
    _completion = completion;
    return [super popViewControllerAnimated:animated];
}

Assuming

@interface NavigationController : UINavigationController <UINavigationControllerDelegate>

and

@implementation NavigationController {
    void (^_completion)();
}

and

- (id) initWithRootViewController:(UIViewController *) rootViewController {
    self = [super initWithRootViewController:rootViewController];
    if (self) {
        self.delegate = self;
    }
    return self;
}

Answer 2

Working with or without animation properly, and also includes popToRootViewController:

 // updated for Swift 3.0
extension UINavigationController {

  private func doAfterAnimatingTransition(animated: Bool, completion: @escaping (() -> Void)) {
    if let coordinator = transitionCoordinator, animated {
      coordinator.animate(alongsideTransition: nil, completion: { _ in
        completion()
      })
    } else {
      DispatchQueue.main.async {
        completion()
      }
    }
  }

  func pushViewController(viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool, completion: @escaping (() ->     Void)) {
    pushViewController(viewController, animated: animated)
    doAfterAnimatingTransition(animated: animated, completion: completion)
  }

  func popViewController(animated: Bool, completion: @escaping (() -> Void)) {
    popViewController(animated: animated)
    doAfterAnimatingTransition(animated: animated, completion: completion)
  }

  func popToRootViewController(animated: Bool, completion: @escaping (() -> Void)) {
    popToRootViewController(animated: animated)
    doAfterAnimatingTransition(animated: animated, completion: completion)
  }
}

Answer 3

I know an answer has been accepted over two years ago, however this answer is incomplete.

There is no way to do what you're wanting out-of-the-box

This is technically correct because the UINavigationController API doesn't offer any options for this. However by using the CoreAnimation framework it's possible to add a completion block to the underlying animation:

[CATransaction begin];
[CATransaction setCompletionBlock:^{
    // handle completion here
}];

[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

[CATransaction commit];

The completion block will be called as soon as the animation used by popViewControllerAnimated: ends. This functionality has been available since iOS 4.

Answer 4

Use the next extension on your code: (Swift 4)

import UIKit

extension UINavigationController {

    func popViewController(animated: Bool = true, completion: @escaping () -> Void) {
        CATransaction.begin()
        CATransaction.setCompletionBlock(completion)
        popViewController(animated: animated)
        CATransaction.commit()
    }

    func pushViewController(_ viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool = true, completion: @escaping () -> Void) {
        CATransaction.begin()
        CATransaction.setCompletionBlock(completion)
        pushViewController(viewController, animated: animated)
        CATransaction.commit()
    }
}

Answer 5

I made a Swift version with extensions with @JorisKluivers answer.

This will call a completion closure after the animation is done for both push and pop.

extension UINavigationController {
    func popViewControllerWithHandler(completion: ()->()) {
        CATransaction.begin()
        CATransaction.setCompletionBlock(completion)
        self.popViewControllerAnimated(true)
        CATransaction.commit()
    }
    func pushViewController(viewController: UIViewController, completion: ()->()) {
        CATransaction.begin()
        CATransaction.setCompletionBlock(completion)
        self.pushViewController(viewController, animated: true)
        CATransaction.commit()
    }
}

Answer 6

Cleaned up Swift 4 version based on this answer.

extension UINavigationController {
    func pushViewController(_ viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool, completion: @escaping () -> Void) {
        self.pushViewController(viewController, animated: animated)
        self.callCompletion(animated: animated, completion: completion)
    }

    func popViewController(animated: Bool, completion: @escaping () -> Void) -> UIViewController? {
        let viewController = self.popViewController(animated: animated)
        self.callCompletion(animated: animated, completion: completion)
        return viewController
    }

    private func callCompletion(animated: Bool, completion: @escaping () -> Void) {
        if animated, let coordinator = self.transitionCoordinator {
            coordinator.animate(alongsideTransition: nil) { _ in
                completion()
            }
        } else {
            completion()
        }
    }
}