Swift - pushViewController from appDelegate, rootViewController.navigationController is nil

Question

Having a problem following a few guides, specifically http://blog.originate.com/blog/2014/04/22/deeplinking-in-ios/

I\'m setting the url scheme and it\'s working wel

Answer 1

Swift 3 & 4 best practices to push viewcontroller from AppDelegate:

if let rootViewController = self.window!.rootViewController as? UINavigationController {
   let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)

   if let viewcontroller = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "DiscussionBoardSID") as? DiscussionBoardViewController {
      viewcontroller.postID = "13" ///pass data to your viewcontroller
      rootViewController.pushViewController(viewcontroller, animated: true)
   }
}

Answer 2

func pushNewView() {
    if let wind = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate?.window {
        if let rootViewController = wind?.rootViewController {
            let viewToPush = YourViewController()
            let nav1 = UINavigationController(rootViewController: viewToPush)
            if let alreadySomeOneThere = rootViewController.presentedViewController {
                alreadySomeOneThere.presentViewController(nav1, animated: true, completion: nil)
            }else {
                rootViewController.presentViewController(nav1, animated: true, completion: nil)
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

APPDELEGATE TO PAGE:

        let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
        let loginPageView = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("leadBidderPagerID") as! LeadBidderPage
        var rootViewController = self.window!.rootViewController as! UINavigationController
        rootViewController.pushViewController(loginPageView, animated: true)

PAGE TO PAGE:

        let loginPageView = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("scoutPageID") as! ScoutPage
        self.navigationController?.pushViewController(loginPageView, animated: true)

Answer 4

If you want to present and dismiss with NavigationBar or Dismiss(Animated: true, completion: nil) Set addObserver in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {



NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(devolucionNoPresencial), name: NSNotification.Name(rawValue: "DevolucionNoPresencial"), object: nil)
        return true
}

then in your method

func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter, didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse, withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {
//do your code for .active, .inactive .background, etc

 if let userInfo = response.notification.request.content.userInfo as? [String : AnyObject] {
            if UIApplication.shared.applicationState == .active {
//activate the notificationCenter so you can call your @objc method
NotificationCenter.default.post(name: NSNotification.Name(rawValue: "DevolucionNoPresencial"), object: nil)
}

add @objc method

@objc private func devolucionNoPresencial() {


       //change DevolucionVC for VC you want to present

        if let controller = DevolucionVC() as? DevolucionVC {
            if let window = self.window, let rootViewController = window.rootViewController {
                var currentController = rootViewController
                while let presentedController = currentController.presentedViewController {
                    currentController = presentedController
                }
                currentController.present(controller, animated: true, completion: nil)
            }
        }

    }

}

Answer 5

It seems that rootViewController actually is of type UINavigationController in my case, so casting it on declaration allowed me to call pushToViewController directly on it.

func application(application: UIApplication, openURL url: NSURL, sourceApplication: String, annotation: AnyObject?) -> Bool {
    let rootViewController = self.window!.rootViewController as! UINavigationController
    let mainStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
    let profileViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "InstructionVC") as! InstructionVC
    rootViewController.pushViewController(profileViewController, animated: true)
    return true

}

Answer 6

SWIFT 4: Safe way to push with the use of conditional binding and Chaining

if let navController = self.navigationController, let viewController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "indentfier") as? CustomViewController{
    navController.pushViewController(viewController, animated: true)
}

In One line of code :

Swift 3:

self.navigationController!.pushViewController(self.storyboar‌​d!.instantiateViewCo‌​ntroller(withIdentif‌​ier: "view2") as UIViewController, animated: true)

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self.navigationController!.pushViewController(self.storyboard!.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("view2") as UIViewController, animated: true)