push ViewController without storyboard - swift

I try to push a view controller from the main ViewController like this (Swift 4):
#objc func childAction(sender: UIButton!) {
print("Child button tapped")
let vc = childDetailViewController()
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
}
The text is printed, but the viewController is not pushed. What did I missed?

Possible that self.navigationController is nil.
Try to present it: self.present(vc, animated: true)
UPD
Also if it does not help, try temporary change your childDetailViewController to UIViewController() and see what happens. If you see the empty white screen after tap then the problem is on childDetailViewController

Inside AppDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions do
let fir = FirstVC()
self.window?.rootViewController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: fir)
Then this
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
should work

From Xcode 11 you might have noticed that along with the default files like above, a new file is created named as SceneDelegate.swift. From iOS 13 and later, SceneDelegate takes up some responsibilites from AppDelegate. In particular related to UIWindow from AppDelegate is now UIScene in SceneDelegate. An app can have more than one scene which mostly handles application interface and app content. So, the SceneDelegate is responsible for what’s displayed on the screen in terma of UI and data.
var window: UIWindow?
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
guard let windowScene = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
let vc = ViewController()
let navigationView = UINavigationController(rootViewController: vc)
window?.rootViewController = navigationView
window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
}

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How do i set/change the Root ViewController as a UINavigationController when the user opens the app a second time in swift?

i have an app where the user sets a username in the WelcomeViewController the first time he launches the app. This Username gets stored in Firestore. I want to change the ViewController that gets displayed when the app is opened after the username is set!
I made a function that checks if there is a username stored in FireStore and sets a boolean to true or false depending on the result. I want to change the ViewController that gets displayed as the RootViewController based on the boolean value, if true set the MainVC as RootVC and if it's false the WelcomeVC should be the RootVC.
If tried to set up a func inside the SceneDelegate func scene() but somehow i either get
a crash or a black screen when the app doesnt crash. I dont know what im doing wrong, i have tried every tutorial but nothing is working.
heres my code:
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
// Use this method to optionally configure and attach the UIWindow `window` to the provided UIWindowScene `scene`.
// If using a storyboard, the `window` property will automatically be initialized and attached to the scene.
// This delegate does not imply the connecting scene or session are new (see `application:configurationForConnectingSceneSession` instead).
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let welcomeVCAsRoot = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "WelcomeViewController")
let mainVCAsRoot = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "MainViewController")
if User.shared.userNameOccupied == true {
self.window?.rootViewController = welcomeVCAsRoot
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
} else {
self.window?.rootViewController = mainVCAsRoot
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
guard let _ = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
}
Try to use scene
func scene(_ scene: UIScene,
willConnectTo session: UISceneSession,
options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
guard let windowScene = (scene as? UIWindowScene)
else { fatalError() }
self.window = .init(frame: windowScene.coordinateSpace.bounds)
self.window?.windowScene = windowScene
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let welcomeVCAsRoot = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "WelcomeViewController")
let mainVCAsRoot = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "MainViewController")
if User.shared.userNameOccupied == true {
self.window?.rootViewController = welcomeVCAsRoot
} else {
self.window?.rootViewController = mainVCAsRoot
}
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
If this will not help - try to add:
class TestViewController: UIViewController {}
and call it from the method scene like:
let testController = TestViewController()
testController.backgroundColor = .blue
self.window?.rootViewController = testController
If you will receive blue screen - something wrong on the controller side, if no - something wrong with my advice, and let me know exactly type of error.
Good luck

Could not find keyboard scene delegate for interaction view

Below iOS 13 my UITextField correctly launches a keyboard and lets the user type in their answer.
Above iOS 13, textFieldDidBeginEditing() is triggered when I tap on the text field, but the keyboard is not shown, so the user cannot give their answer .
Debug console doesn't immediately throw any errors, but eventually the following message comes up, which I think is the key:
Could not find keyboard scene delegate for interaction view
I think the error appears in the later iOSs because scenes become the main thing - and somewhere I needed to set up a delegate to allow the keyboard to appear over the fron of the first scene.
No idea how to do this though!
My UITextField is totally standard. To reproduce the error, I have the following set up code in my SceneDelegate
class SceneDelegate: UIResponder, UIWindowSceneDelegate {
var window: UIWindow?
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
let windowScene = UIWindowScene(session: session, connectionOptions: connectionOptions)
self.window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "VC" )
self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
guard let _ = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
}
In my actual app - I use this subroutine to launch a tutorial if the user is new (i.e. I need to be able to change the starting view controller)
Something appears to be out of sorts in your SceneDelegate function scene().
Try this code which I grabbed from another project I have at hand.
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
guard let windowScene = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
window = UIWindow(frame: windowScene.coordinateSpace.bounds)
window?.windowScene = windowScene
self.window?.rootViewController = ViewController()
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
}

How to make Onboarding work with Scene Delegate in iOS13?

I am trying to set up my onboarding screen in the SceneDelegate.
When I run the code below, it compiles, but just goes to a black screen.
They're many great onboarding tutorials for AppDelegate, but very few for the new SceneDelegate with iOS13. I took this tutorial and tried to apply it to SceneDelegate, but I can't get it to work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6t1woVd6RQ&t=537s
This is my scene delegate code.
var window: UIWindow?
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
let launchedBefore = UserDefaults.standard.bool(forKey: "hasLaunched")
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
let launchStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Onboarding", bundle: nil)
let mainStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
var vc: UIViewController
if launchedBefore
{
vc = mainStoryboard.instantiateInitialViewController()!
}
else
{
vc = launchStoryboard.instantiateViewController(identifier: "Onboarding")
}
UserDefaults.standard.set(true, forKey: "hasLaunched")
self.window?.rootViewController = vc
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
// guard let _ = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
}
I've tried it both with commenting out the last guard statement and with not commenting it out.
You're creating the window incorrectly, so you're going to end up with a black screen. It would be a lot better to let the storyboard create the window for you, since you don't know how to do it. Just delete this line completely:
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
You can also cut this line, as it is also otiose (the storyboard will do this for you as well):
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
Your sole responsibility now is to set the value of self.window?.rootViewController. Note that you do not need to say
vc = mainStoryboard.instantiateInitialViewController()!
because that is the root view controller already, given to you by the storyboard. Thus the only thing you need to do, in the architecture you've posited, is replace the root view controller in the situation where the user needs to be onboarded.
(See my github repo for a working example.)
This was solved by matt, see his answer.
Just posting the correct code below for anyone trying to do Onboarding with storyboards in ios13.
var window: UIWindow?
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
let launchedBefore = UserDefaults.standard.bool(forKey: "hasLaunched")
let launchStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Onboarding", bundle: nil)
let mainStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
var vc: UIViewController
if launchedBefore
{
vc = mainStoryboard.instantiateInitialViewController()!
}
else
{
vc = launchStoryboard.instantiateViewController(identifier: "OnboardingScene")
}
UserDefaults.standard.set(true, forKey: "hasLaunched")
self.window?.rootViewController = vc
}

Completely black screen on setting initial view controller in AppDelegate

All I want to do is go to the login screen if the user = nil. Otherwise it goes to the main/home section of the app which consists of the Tab Bar Controller's first view controller
Here is my app delegate:
import UIKit
import Firebase
#UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
var window: UIWindow?
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
FirebaseApp.configure()
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
if Auth.auth().currentUser == nil && !UserDefaults.standard.bool(forKey: "hasViewedWalkthrough") {
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "WalkthroughViewController") as? WalkthroughViewController
self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
} else if Auth.auth().currentUser == nil && UserDefaults.standard.bool(forKey: "hasViewedWalkthrough") {
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "loginViewController") as? LoginViewController
self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
} else {
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "homeTabBarController") as? MainTabBarViewController
self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
}
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
I am not able to get to the onboarding or login screen. I am always led to the main screen. I know the screens are rendering fine if I manually set them as initial view controllers in storyboard.
I have tried numerous solutions and none of them are working.
Update
Try this:
let storyBoard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let initialViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("homeTabBarController") as? TabBarViewController // whatever your swift file is called
self.window?.rootViewController = storyBoard
use that code for each statement for the if statement, obviously change the names of the view controllers to the login one respectively.
For people reading this in the future, iOS 13 introduced SceneDelegate and now all UI related stuff should be configured from that point.
I faced the same issue and solved it by using this code.
The custom window should be configured from here now.
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
// Use this method to optionally configure and attach the UIWindow `window` to the provided UIWindowScene `scene`.
// If using a storyboard, the `window` property will automatically be initialized and attached to the scene.
// This delegate does not imply the connecting scene or session are new (see `application:configurationForConnectingSceneSession` instead).
guard let sceneWindow = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
window = UIWindow(frame: sceneWindow.coordinateSpace.bounds)
window?.windowScene = sceneWindow
window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
if let navigationController = Storyboard.Main.initialViewController as? UINavigationController,
let viewController = navigationController.children.first as? CountriesViewController {
viewController.inject(CountriesViewModel(provider: CountryAPI(),
informTo: viewController),
navigator: CountriesNavigator(navigationController: navigationController))
window?.rootViewController = navigationController
}
}

Why is manually setup root view controller showing black screen?

I have manually setup a root view controller for iOS 13 using Xcode 11, Beta 5. Deleted references to main in the deployment info including removing reference to main in info.plist which I never found myself having to do prior to iOS 13. Setup for window is done in SceneDelegate, nested in willConnectTo function. Normally the app would crash if I missed a step. Now I'm getting a blank black screen instead of seeing what my view controller is setup for, say a red background. All of this use to work prior to beta 5.
Have performed erase all content and settings on the simulator. Cleared the build folder and have ran the app on a physical device. Also have used another computer with Xcode 11, beta 5. All results to the same blank black screen. What am I missing?
Here is my manual setup for root view controller in SceneDelegate file nested in willConnectTo function:
let viewCon = ViewController()
window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
window?.rootViewController = viewCon
window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
To ensure you see your root view controller in iOS 13 when everything is done programmatically, you must do the following:
In the scene delegate, you must create the window instance and the root view controller:
class SceneDelegate: UIResponder, UIWindowSceneDelegate {
var window: UIWindow?
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
guard let winScene = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
// Create the root view controller as needed
let vc = ViewController()
let nc = UINavigationController(rootViewController: vc)
// Create the window. Be sure to use this initializer and not the frame one.
let win = UIWindow(windowScene: winScene)
win.rootViewController = nc
win.makeKeyAndVisible()
window = win
}
}
Your Info.plist has to have the "Application Scene Manifest" entry. Below it should be the "Enable Multiple Windows" entry. Set to YES or NO as appropriate to your app. Optionally you should also have the "Scene Configuration" entry.
All of these entries are added by Xcode when you check the "Supports multiple windows" setting on the General tab of your target. This will default the "Enable Multiple Windows" entry to YES so you can change that to NO if you want scenes but not multiple windows.
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
guard let windowScene = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
let window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
self.window = window
let mainstoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let newViewcontroller:UIViewController = mainstoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "YourVCName") as! YourVCName
navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: newViewcontroller)
window.rootViewController = navigationController
window.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
try this code!!
if you are using ios 13 and your xcode is updated then you should set your root view controller in scene delegate instead of app delegate.
I faced the same problem by the time, I know someone has solved this issue, however, I just wanna share my approach.
let storyBoard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let initialViewController = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "HomeScreen") as? HomeScreen
self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
I used this simple code instead, and it works like a charm : )