I watched a ionic online course. For getting rid of modal , it taught me to use .dismiss() of viewcontroller rather than .pop() of navcontroller. Why? What is the difference of these two?
NavController | push and pop
Base controller class for Ionic
You can push a new page onto the top of the navigation stack with .push().
Whilst the other way around, you can pop of a page of that stack with .pop().
ModalController and ViewController | present and dismiss
A Modal is a content pane that goes over the user's current page.
The modal is presented over the users page and can be closed using the ViewController's dismiss method. This dismiss method can return data that is passed in.
See docs below
NavController
ModalController
ViewController
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I want to build an app using swift with the following structure:
Login/Signup screen
Home screen with slide out menu on the left
Different Pages in the menu -> same level like home screen
![Picture of the structure][1]
// Sorry not enough reputation for posting images
Here is an example, but I don't understand it.
GitHub-Link
![Picture of the controller structure][2]
Why is the Login-Screen the rootViewController of the Navigation Controller?
Why is there no "back" button on the other controllers of the menu (Friends, Profile)?
I could remove the segue from Login to Profil and the app still works fine...it's a normal push segue. I don't understand what that sequel does.
I thought every controller which is not the rootviewcontroller of the navigation controller gets pushed on the stack and a "back" button...
Should i split the Login and the Signup screen into two different controllers?
My suggestion:
1. Login screen/Signupscreen
=> Modal segue to navigation controller
2. Navigation Controller => RootViewController: Page 1
But how should I implement the Page 2, Page 3,... at the same hierarchical level as Page 1
How would you structure the controllers?
[1]: http:// i.imgur.com/qHMy6zs.png
[2]: http:// i.imgur.com/wdOGCGa.png
Looking forward to your answers!
Jan
Why is the Login-Screen the rootViewController of the Navigation Controller?
It does not have to be, it's a design decision, personally I would not do it that way.
Why is there now "back" button on the other controllers of the menu (Friends, Profile)?
Pushing a view controller onto a UINavigationController will do this automatically unless you specify that the back button should not be present in the view controller that gets pushed. UIViewControllers have a property called UINavigationItem where you can set the back button to hidden. See here.
I thought every controller which is not the rootviewcontroller of the navigation controller gets pushed on the stack and a "back" button...
Yes that's right, you sort of just answered one of your previous questions.
Should i split the Login and the Signup screen into two different controllers?
Yes that would generally be a good idea. Have a separate view and view controller for each of them. It does depend on your ui design also.
How would you structure the controllers?
It appears you have multiple menus and different sections to your app. In that case using a UITabBarController combined with multiple UINavigationControllers (one navigation controller per tab) may be one way to go about it, I've used this technique before and it works well.
If I a mistaken based on your images and you actually just have one main menu then stick to just one UINavigationController and just push and pop view controllers, have one view controller / view per view/page of your app.
Best thing is to read up about UINavigationController and UITabBarController and decide what suits how you want to layout your views / your design.
I have a modal that I am calling presentModalViewController to display from a custom menubar. This menubar is overlaying a viewcontroller that is pushed from a tableView cell.
Now... that all being said, I need to find some way to jump the user back to the root of the tableView from the modal screen. Is this possible? I've been fighting with this for the past couple of hours with no results.
If you're starting from a tablview, drilling down to a detail view via a navigation controller, and then presenting a modal view controller on top of that detail view, you'd have two steps to get back to your list/tableview: First you'd dismiss your modal view controller, then you'd pop your detail view off your navigation stack.
That should put you back where you started (at the tablview), if I'm reading this correctly.
You could pass a reference to the navigation controller to the modal view, and then immediately after calling dismissModalViewControllerAnimated, you can use the reference to the navigationController to pop back to the root view controller.
Currently i have an application that uses uinavigationcontroller but hides the navigationbar only in root view and i want to use this application as external library in some application and push this entire application as one menu item.
But when i try to push this application in navigation stack it hides the navigation barand i am not able come to my previous list.
How to show the back button in this case and How to push one uinavigationcontroller in some other navigationcontroller?
please help me in this issue.
The navigationController is applicable throughout the application.So,what u need to do is simply hide the navigation bvar in RootViewController and show it on the next view.This solves your problem.
I have created an app and a login and would like to join them together with no luck. The app has a tabbarcontroller with navigationcontrollers via tableviewcells to drill down to other views of the app.
As I am having no luck in joining the two. I have tried to build on from the login that I have done. I can push to a new view but it does not show a tabbarcontroller etc on the next view. I have seen various forums with people having this problem as well.
So, my question: How can I make a new page (login) open to a TabBarController instead of a view (in the middle of my app, not at the launch)?
Does anyone out there know how to solve this issue?
Use navigation controller in tab bar controller. lets say the navigation controller is its first view controller. Now when the root view controller of the navigation is being displayed, you can see the tab bar. Now if you keep pushing new view controllers in this navigation controller, the tab bar wont hide itself.
However if you present some view controller modally, it would hide itself.
As far as login is concerned, i will check if user has logged in or not. if no, then i would set the root view controller of navigation controller as loginviewconroller else some home page.
I would check the if the user is logged in in the first viewController that get loaded.
From there I would present the loginViewController via the presentModalViewController method.
The use will not see the tabbar if you set the withAnimation:NO.
Now just dismiss the login viewcontroller when the use is logged in.
One could also send a notification that the is logged in, so that viewcontrollers can update them self for the no logged in user.
Hey guys, just wondering if this one is possible
I have an app that posts to tumblr, and the posting function is within a modal view of the main view. I have a connection listener that stops displaying an activity indicator in the status bar when the app gets a response from tumblr's servers. I want to display a message saying that it was posted successfully in the main window, outside of the modal view..is this possible?
Yes of course, you can add a subview to the UIWindow. In the app delegate make the window a property, if it isn't alreay. Now you can access the window with
((YourAppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate]).window
Don't forget to cast, else window will give you a warning.
Adding a subview to the parentViewController while showing a modal view controller won't show it, it's behind the modal view controller.
Have you tried accessing the outside view via the parentViewController property on your modal view controller?