As @danh suggested, my issue was that I was presenting the modal vc before the UITabBarController was ready. However, I felt uncomfortable relying on a fixed delay before presenting the view controller (from my testing, I needed to use a 0.05-0.1s delay in performSelector:withDelay:). My solution is to add a block that gets called on UITabBarController's viewDidAppear: method:
PRTabBarController.h:
@interface PRTabBarController : UITabBarController
@property (nonatomic, copy) void (^viewDidAppearBlock)(BOOL animated);
@end
PRTabBarController.m:
#import "PRTabBarController.h"
@implementation PRTabBarController
- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
[super viewDidAppear:animated];
if (self.viewDidAppearBlock) {
self.viewDidAppearBlock(animated);
}
}
@end
Now in application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
PRTabBarController *tabBarController = [[PRTabBarController alloc] init];
// UIWindow initialization, etc.
__weak typeof(tabBarController) weakTabBarController = tabBarController;
tabBarController.viewDidAppearBlock = ^(BOOL animated) {
MyViewController *viewController = [MyViewController new];
viewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationOverFullScreen;
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController];
[weakTabBarController.tabBarController presentViewController:navigationController animated:NO completion:nil];
weakTabBarController.viewDidAppearBlock = nil;
};