How to change the Push and Pop animations in a navigation based app

Question

I have a navigation based application and I want to change the animation of the push and pop animations  How would I do that   Edit 2018  There have been many answers to this question and it s been quite awhile now  I have re-chosen the answer to what I believe to be the most relevant now  If there is anyone that thinks otherwise please let me know in comments

User · Answer

Here is how I have done the same in Swift:

For Push:

    UIView.animateWithDuration(0.75, animations: { () -> Void in
        UIView.setAnimationCurve(UIViewAnimationCurve.EaseInOut)
        self.navigationController!.pushViewController(nextView, animated: false)
        UIView.setAnimationTransition(UIViewAnimationTransition.FlipFromRight, forView: self.navigationController!.view!, cache: false)
    })

For Pop:

I actually did this a little differently to some of the responses above - but as I am new to Swift development, it might not be right. I have overridden viewWillDisappear:animated: and added the pop code in there:

    UIView.animateWithDuration(0.75, animations: { () -> Void in
        UIView.setAnimationCurve(UIViewAnimationCurve.EaseInOut)
        UIView.setAnimationTransition(UIViewAnimationTransition.FlipFromLeft, forView: self.navigationController!.view, cache: false)
    })

    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)

User · Answer

I did the following and it works fine   and is simple and easy to understand    CATransition  transition    CATransition animation   transition duration   0 5  transition timingFunction    CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut   transition type   kCATransitionFade    kCATransitionMoveIn      kCATransitionPush  kCATransitionReveal  kCATransitionFade   transition subtype   kCATransitionFromTop    kCATransitionFromLeft  kCATransitionFromRight  kCATransitionFromTop  kCATransitionFromBottom  self navigationController view layer addAnimation transition forKey nil     self navigationController  popViewControllerAnimated NO     And the same thing for push      Swift 3 0 version   let transition   CATransition   transition duration   0 5 transition timingFunction   CAMediaTimingFunction name  kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut  transition type   kCATransitionFade self navigationController  view layer add transition  forKey  nil      self navigationController  popToRootViewController animated  false

User · Answer

From the sample app  check out this variation  https   github com mpospese MPFoldTransition    pragma mark - UINavigationController MPFoldTransition    implementation UINavigationController MPFoldTransition     -  void pushViewController  UIViewController   viewController animated  BOOL animated -  void pushViewController  UIViewController   viewController foldStyle  MPFoldStyle style        MPFoldTransition transitionFromViewController  self visibleViewController                                     toViewController viewController                                            duration  MPFoldTransition defaultDuration                                                 style style                                          completion   BOOL finished                                                 self pushViewController viewController animated NO                                                        -  UIViewController   popViewControllerWithFoldStyle  MPFoldStyle style       UIViewController  toController     self viewControllers  objectAtIndex   self viewControllers  count  - 2         MPFoldTransition transitionFromViewController  self visibleViewController                                     toViewController toController                                            duration  MPFoldTransition defaultDuration                                                style style                                         completion   BOOL finished                                                 self popViewControllerAnimated NO                                                          return toController

User · Answer

I found a mildly recursive way to do this that works for my purposes  I have an instance variable BOOL that I use to block the normal popping animation and substitute my own non-animated pop message  The variable is initially set to NO  When the back button is tapped  the delegate method sets it to YES and sends a new non-animated pop message to the nav bar  thereby calling the same delegate method again  this time with the variable set to YES  With the variable is set to YES  the delegate method sets it to NO and returns YES to allow the non-animated pop occur  After the second delegate call returns  we end up back in the first one  where NO is returned  blocking the original animated pop  It s actually not as messy as it sounds  My shouldPopItem method looks like this   -  BOOL navigationBar  UINavigationBar   navigationBar shouldPopItem  UINavigationItem   item        if    navigationBar items  indexOfObject item     1                  expandedStack restack                  if   progPop                 progPop   YES           navBar popNavigationItemAnimated NO           return NO            else                progPop   NO          return YES            Works for me

User · Answer

There are UINavigationControllerDelegate and UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning there you can change animation for anything you want   For example this is vertical pop animation for VC    objc class PopAnimator  NSObject  UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning    func transitionDuration transitionContext  UIViewControllerContextTransitioning   - gt  NSTimeInterval       return 0 5    func animateTransition transitionContext  UIViewControllerContextTransitioning         let fromViewController   transitionContext viewControllerForKey UITransitionContextFromViewControllerKey       let toViewController   transitionContext viewControllerForKey UITransitionContextToViewControllerKey       let containerView   transitionContext containerView       let bounds   UIScreen mainScreen   bounds     containerView  insertSubview toViewController view  belowSubview  fromViewController view      toViewController view alpha   0 5      let finalFrameForVC   fromViewController view frame      UIView animateWithDuration transitionDuration transitionContext   animations            fromViewController view frame   CGRectOffset finalFrameForVC  0  bounds height          toViewController view alpha   1 0            completion                finished in             transitionContext completeTransition  transitionContext transitionWasCancelled                  And then  func navigationController navigationController  UINavigationController  animationControllerForOperation operation  UINavigationControllerOperation  fromViewController fromVC  UIViewController  toViewController toVC  UIViewController  - gt  UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning        if operation     Pop           return PopAnimator             return nil      Useful tutorial https   www objc io issues 5-ios7 view-controller-transitions

User · Answer

Luca Davanzo s answer in Swift 4 2  public extension UINavigationController                 Pop current view controller to previous view controller        - parameter type      transition animation type       - parameter duration  transition animation duration              func pop transitionType type  CATransitionType    fade  duration  CFTimeInterval   0 3            self addTransition transitionType  type  duration  duration          self popViewController animated  false                      Push a new view controller on the view controllers s stack        - parameter vc        view controller to push       - parameter type      transition animation type       - parameter duration  transition animation duration              func push viewController vc  UIViewController  transitionType type  CATransitionType    fade  duration  CFTimeInterval   0 3            self addTransition transitionType  type  duration  duration          self pushViewController vc  animated  false             private func addTransition transitionType type  CATransitionType    fade  duration  CFTimeInterval   0 3            let transition   CATransition           transition duration   duration         transition timingFunction   CAMediaTimingFunction name  CAMediaTimingFunctionName easeInEaseOut          transition type   type         self view layer add transition  forKey  nil

User · Answer

for push  CATransition  transition    CATransition animation   transition duration   0 3  transition type   kCATransitionFade    transition subtype   kCATransitionFromTop    self navigationController view layer addAnimation transition forKey kCATransition    self navigationController pushViewController ViewControllerYouWantToPush animated NO     for pop  CATransition  transition    CATransition animation   transition duration   0 3  transition type   kCATransitionFade    transition subtype   kCATransitionFromTop    self navigationController view layer addAnimation transition forKey kCATransition    self navigationController popViewControllerAnimated NO

User · Answer

See my answer to this question for a way to do it in far fewer lines of code  This method allows you to animate a pseudo- Push  of a new view controller any way you like  and when the animation is done it sets up the Navigation Controller just as if you had used the standard Push method  My example lets you animate either a slide-in from the left or from the right  Code repeated here for convenience   - void  showVC  UIViewController    nextVC rightToLeft  BOOL  rightToLeft        self addChildViewController neighbor       CGRect offscreenFrame   self view frame      if rightToLeft            offscreenFrame origin x   offscreenFrame size width   -1 0        else if direction    MyClimbDirectionRight            offscreenFrame origin x   offscreenFrame size width              neighbor view  setFrame offscreenFrame        self view addSubview  neighbor view         neighbor didMoveToParentViewController self        UIView animateWithDuration 0 5 animations              neighbor view  setFrame self view frame         completion   BOOL finished            neighbor willMoveToParentViewController nil            neighbor view removeFromSuperview            neighbor removeFromParentViewController             self navigationController  pushViewController neighbor animated NO           NSMutableArray  newStack      self navigationController  viewControllers  mutableCopy            newStack removeObjectAtIndex 1     self  just below top           self navigationController  setViewControllers newStack

User · Answer

Using private calls is a bad idea as Apple no longer approve apps that do that  Maybe you could try this     Init Animation  UIView beginAnimations nil context NULL    UIView setAnimationDuration  0 50      UIView setAnimationTransition UIViewAnimationTransitionCurlUp forView self navigationController view cache YES      Create ViewController MyViewController  myVC     MyViewController alloc  initWith        self navigationController pushViewController myVC animated NO    myVC release      Start Animation  UIView commitAnimations

User · Answer

I know this thread is old  but I thought I d put in my two cents  You don t need to make a custom animation  there s a simple  maybe hacky  way of doing it  Instead of using push  create a new navigation controller  make the new view controller the root view controller of that nav controller  and then present the nav controller from the original nav controller  Present is easily customizable with many styles  and no need to make a custom animation   For example   UIViewcontroller viewControllerYouWantToPush   UIViewController   UINavigationController newNavController   UINavigationController root  viewControllerYouWantToView  newNavController navBarHidden   YES  self navigationController present newNavController    And you can change the presentation style however you want

User · Answer

Magnus answer  only then for Swift  2 0       let transition   CATransition       transition duration   0 5     transition timingFunction   CAMediaTimingFunction name  kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut      transition type   kCATransitionPush     transition subtype   kCATransitionFromTop     self navigationController  view layer addAnimation transition  forKey  nil      let writeView   WriteViewController   self storyboard  instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier  WriteView   as  WriteViewController     self navigationController  pushViewController writeView  animated  false    Some sidenotes   You can do this as well with Segue  just implement this in prepareForSegue or shouldPerformSegueWithIdentifier  However  this will keep the default animation in it as well  To fix this you have to go to the storyboard  click the Segue  and uncheck the box  Animates   But this will limit your app for IOS 9 0 and above  atleast when I did it in Xcode 7    When doing in a segue  the last two lines should be replaced with   self navigationController  popViewControllerAnimated false    Even though I set false  it kind of ignores it

User · Answer

Since this is the top result on Google I thought I d share what I think is the most sane way  which is to use the iOS 7  transitioning API  I implemented this for iOS 10 with Swift 3   It s pretty simple to combine this with how UINavigationController animates between two view controllers if you create a subclass of UINavigationController and return an instance of a class that conforms to the UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning protocol   For example here is my UINavigationController subclass   class NavigationController  UINavigationController       init             super init nibName  nil  bundle  nil           delegate   self            required init  coder aDecoder  NSCoder            fatalError  init coder   has not been implemented            extension NavigationController  UINavigationControllerDelegate        public func navigationController   navigationController  UINavigationController  animationControllerFor operation  UINavigationControllerOperation  from fromVC  UIViewController  to toVC  UIViewController  - gt  UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning            return NavigationControllerAnimation operation  operation             You can see that I set the UINavigationControllerDelegate to itself  and in an extension on my subclass I implement the method in UINavigationControllerDelegate that allows you to return a custom animation controller  i e   NavigationControllerAnimation   This custom animation controller will replace the stock animation for you   You re probably wondering why I pass in the operation to the NavigationControllerAnimation instance via its initializer  I do this so that in NavigationControllerAnimation s implementation of the UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning protocol I know what the operation is  i e    push  or  pop    This helps to know what kind of animation I should do  Most of the time  you want to perform a different animation depending on the operation   The rest is pretty standard  Implement the two required functions in the UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning protocol and animate however you like   class NavigationControllerAnimation  NSObject  UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning        let operation  UINavigationControllerOperation      init operation  UINavigationControllerOperation            self operation   operation          super init              func transitionDuration using transitionContext  UIViewControllerContextTransitioning   - gt  TimeInterval           return 0 3            public func animateTransition using transitionContext  UIViewControllerContextTransitioning            guard let fromViewController   transitionContext viewController forKey  UITransitionContextViewControllerKey from               let toViewController   transitionContext viewController forKey  UITransitionContextViewControllerKey to  else   return           let containerView   transitionContext containerView          if operation     push                  do your animation for push           else if operation     pop                  do your animation for pop                     It s important to remember  that for each different type of operation  i e    push  or  pop   the to and from view controllers will be different  When you are in a push operation  the to view controller will be the one being pushed  When you are in a pop operation  the to view controller will be the one that is being transitioned to  and the from view controller will be the one that s being popped   Also  the to view controller must be added as a subview of the containerView in the transition context   When your animation completes  you must call transitionContext completeTransition true   If you are doing an interactive transition  you will have to dynamically return a Bool to completeTransition didComplete  Bool   depending on if the transition is complete at the end of the animation   Finally  optional reading   you might want to see how I did the transition I was working on  This code is a bit more hacky and I wrote it pretty quickly so I wouldn t say it s great animation code but it still shows how to do the animation part   Mine was a really simple transition  I wanted to mimic the same animation that UINavigationController typically does  but instead of the  next page over the top  animation it does  I wanted to implement a 1 1 animation of the old view controller away at the same time as the new view controller appears  This has the effect of making the two view controllers seem as though they are pinned to each other   For the push operation  that requires first setting the toViewController s view origin on the x   axis off screen  adding it as the subview of the containerView  animating it onto screen by setting that origin x to zero  At the same time  I animate the fromViewController s view away by setting its origin x off the screen    toViewController view frame   containerView bounds offsetBy dx  containerView frame size width  dy  0 0   containerView addSubview toViewController view   UIView animate withDuration  transitionDuration using  transitionContext                  delay  0                 options    UIViewAnimationOptions curveEaseOut                   animations                    toViewController view frame   containerView bounds                 fromViewController view frame   containerView bounds offsetBy dx  -containerView frame size width  dy  0                    completion     finished  in                 transitionContext completeTransition true       The pop operation is basically the inverse  Add the toViewController as a subview of the containerView  and animate away the fromViewController to the right as you animate in the toViewController from the left   containerView addSubview toViewController view   UIView animate withDuration  transitionDuration using  transitionContext                  delay  0                 options    UIViewAnimationOptions curveEaseOut                   animations                    fromViewController view frame   containerView bounds offsetBy dx  containerView frame width  dy  0                  toViewController view frame   containerView bounds                   completion     finished  in                 transitionContext completeTransition true       Here s a gist with the whole swift file   https   gist github com alanzeino 603293f9da5cd0b7f6b60dc20bc766be

User · Answer

Remember that in Swift   extension are definitely your friends    public extension UINavigationController                 Pop current view controller to previous view controller        - parameter type      transition animation type       - parameter duration  transition animation duration              func pop transitionType type  String   kCATransitionFade  duration  CFTimeInterval   0 3            self addTransition transitionType  type  duration  duration          self popViewControllerAnimated false                      Push a new view controller on the view controllers s stack        - parameter vc        view controller to push       - parameter type      transition animation type       - parameter duration  transition animation duration              func push viewController vc  UIViewController  transitionType type  String   kCATransitionFade  duration  CFTimeInterval   0 3            self addTransition transitionType  type  duration  duration          self pushViewController vc  animated  false             private func addTransition transitionType type  String   kCATransitionFade  duration  CFTimeInterval   0 3            let transition   CATransition           transition duration   duration         transition timingFunction   CAMediaTimingFunction name  kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut          transition type   type         self view layer addAnimation transition  forKey  nil

User · Answer

Realising this is an old question  I still would like to post this answer  as I had some problems popping several viewControllers with the proposed answers  My solution is to subclass UINavigationController and override all the pop and push methods   FlippingNavigationController h   interface FlippingNavigationController   UINavigationController   end   FlippingNavigationController m    import  FlippingNavigationController h    define FLIP DURATION 0 5   implementation FlippingNavigationController  -  void pushViewController  UIViewController   viewController animated  BOOL animated        UIView transitionWithView self view                       duration animated FLIP DURATION 0                        options UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut   UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight                     animations     super pushViewController viewController                                                    animated NO                         completion nil      -  UIViewController   popViewControllerAnimated  BOOL animated       return   self popToViewController  self viewControllers self viewControllers count - 2                                animated animated  lastObject      -  NSArray   popToRootViewControllerAnimated  BOOL animated       return  self popToViewController  self viewControllers firstObject                              animated animated      -  NSArray   popToViewController  UIViewController   viewController animated  BOOL animated         block NSArray  viewControllers   nil        UIView transitionWithView self view                       duration animated FLIP DURATION 0                        options UIViewAnimationOptionCurveEaseInOut   UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft                     animations    viewControllers    super popToViewController viewController animated NO                         completion nil        return viewControllers      end

User · Answer

Just use   ViewController  viewController     ViewController alloc  init    UINavigationController  navController     UINavigationController alloc  initWithRootViewController viewController   navController navigationBarHidden   YES    self presentViewController navController animated YES completion  nil    viewController release    navController release

User · Answer

This is how I ve always managed to complete this task   For Push   MainView  nextView   MainView alloc  init    UIView  beginAnimations nil context NULL    UIView setAnimationCurve UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut    UIView setAnimationDuration 0 75    self navigationController pushViewController nextView animated NO    UIView setAnimationTransition UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView self navigationController view cache NO    UIView commitAnimations    nextView release     For Pop    UIView  beginAnimations nil context NULL    UIView setAnimationCurve UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut    UIView setAnimationDuration 0 75    UIView setAnimationTransition UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromLeft forView self navigationController view cache NO    UIView commitAnimations     UIView beginAnimations nil context NULL    UIView setAnimationDelay 0 375    self navigationController popViewControllerAnimated NO    UIView commitAnimations      I still get a lot of feedback from this so I m going to go ahead and update it to use animation blocks which is the Apple recommended way to do animations anyway   For Push   MainView  nextView     MainView alloc  init    UIView animateWithDuration 0 75                          animations                                  UIView setAnimationCurve UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut                                 self navigationController pushViewController nextView animated NO                                 UIView setAnimationTransition UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView self navigationController view cache NO                                  For Pop    UIView animateWithDuration 0 75                          animations                                  UIView setAnimationCurve UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut                                 UIView setAnimationTransition UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromLeft forView self navigationController view cache NO                                 self navigationController popViewControllerAnimated NO

User · Answer

Based on jordanperry answer  updated for swift 4  For push UIViewController  let yourVC   self storyboard  instantiateViewController withIdentifier   yourViewController   as  yourViewController     UIView animate withDuration  0 75  animations      - gt  Void in     UIView setAnimationCurve  easeInOut      self navigationController  pushViewController terms  animated  true      UIView setAnimationTransition  flipFromRight  for   self navigationController  view    cache  false       For Pop  UIView animate withDuration  0 75  animations      - gt  Void in     UIView setAnimationCurve  easeInOut      UIView setAnimationTransition  flipFromLeft  for   self navigationController  view    cache  false     navigationController  popViewController animated  false

User · Answer

I recently was trying to do something similar   I decided I didn t like the sliding animation of the UINavigationController  but I also didn t want to do the animations that UIView gives you like curl or anything like that   I wanted to do a cross fade between the views when I push or pop     The problem there involves the fact that the view is literally removing the view or popping one over the top of the current one  so a fade doesn t work   The solution I came to involved taking my new view and adding it as a subview to the current top view on the UIViewController s stack   I add it with an alpha of 0  then do a crossfade   When the animation sequence finishes  I push the view onto the stack without animating it   I then go back to the old topView and clean up stuff that I had changed   Its a little more complicated than that  because you have the navigationItems you have to adjust to make the transition look correct   Also  if you do any rotation  you then have to adjust frame sizes as you add the views as subviews so they show up correctly on screen   Here is some of the code I used   I subclassed the UINavigationController and overrode the push and the pop methods   - void pushViewController  UIViewController   viewController animated  BOOL animated         UIViewController  currentViewController    self viewControllers lastObject           if we don t have a current controller  we just do a normal push       if currentViewController    nil                    super pushViewController viewController animated animated            return                  if no animation was requested  we can skip the cross fade       if  animation                    super pushViewController viewController animated NO            return                  start the cross fade   This is a tricky thing   We basically add the new view   as a subview of the current view  and do a cross fade through alpha values    then we push the new view on the stack without animating it  so it seemlessly is there    Finally we remove the new view that was added as a subview to the current view   viewController view alpha   0 0    we need to hold onto this value  we ll be releasing it later     NSString  title    currentViewController title retain      add the view as a subview of the current view  currentViewController view addSubview viewController view    currentViewController view bringSubviewToFront viewController view   UIBarButtonItem  rButtonItem   currentViewController navigationItem rightBarButtonItem  UIBarButtonItem  lButtonItem   currentViewController navigationItem leftBarButtonItem   NSArray  array   nil     if we have a right bar button  we need to add it to the array  if not  we will crash when we try and assign it   so leave it out of the array we are creating to pass as the context   I always have a left bar button  so I m not checking to see if it is nil  Its a little sloppy  but you may want to be checking for the left BarButtonItem as well  if rButtonItem    nil      array     NSArray alloc  initWithObjects currentViewController viewController title lButtonItem rButtonItem nil   else       array     NSArray alloc  initWithObjects currentViewController viewController title lButtonItem nil        remove the right bar button for our transition  currentViewController navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem nil animated YES     remove the left bar button and create a backbarbutton looking item    currentViewController navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem nil animated NO      set the back button UIBarButtonItem  backButton     UIBarButtonItem alloc  initWithTitle title style kButtonStyle target self action  selector goBack     currentViewController navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem backButton animated YES    viewController navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem backButton animated NO    backButton release     currentViewController setTitle viewController title     UIView beginAnimations   push view  context array    UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector  selector animationForCrossFadePushDidStop finished context      UIView setAnimationDelegate self    UIView setAnimationDuration 0 80    viewController view setAlpha  1 0    UIView commitAnimations      - void animationForCrossFadePushDidStop  NSString   animationID finished  NSNumber   finished context  void   context    UIViewController  c     NSArray  context objectAtIndex 0   UIViewController  n     NSArray  context objectAtIndex 1   NSString  title         NSArray   context objectAtIndex 2   UIBarButtonItem  l     NSArray   context objectAtIndex 3   UIBarButtonItem  r   nil    not all views have a right bar button  if we look for it and it isn t in the context    we ll crash out and not complete the method  but the program won t crash    So  we need to check if it is there and skip it if it isn t  if   NSArray   context count     5      r     NSArray   context objectAtIndex 4      Take the new view away from being a subview of the current view so when we go back to it   it won t be there anymore     c view subviews  lastObject  removeFromSuperview    c setTitle title    title release     set the search button  c navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem l animated NO     set the next button if r    nil       c navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem r animated NO      super pushViewController n animated NO         As I mention in the code  I always have a left bar button item  so I don t check to see if it is nil before putting it in the array that I pass as the context for the animation delegate   If you do this  you may want to make that check     The problem I found was that if you crash at all in the delegate method  it won t crash the program   It just stops the delegate from completing but you don t get any kind of warning  So since I was doing my cleanup in that delegate routine  it was causing some weird visual behavior since it wasn t finishing the cleanup   The back button I create calls a  goBack  method  and that method just calls the pop routine   - void goBack          self popViewControllerAnimated YES       Also  here is my pop routine   - UIViewController   popViewControllerAnimated  BOOL animated         get the count for the number of viewControllers on the stack int viewCount     self viewControllers  count     get the top view controller on the stack UIViewController  topViewController    self viewControllers objectAtIndex viewCount - 1     get the next viewController after the top one  this will be the new top one  UIViewController  newTopViewController    self viewControllers objectAtIndex viewCount - 2      if no animation was requested  we can skip the cross fade if  animated         super popViewControllerAnimated NO               return topViewController         start of the cross fade pop   A bit tricky   We need to add the new top controller   as a subview of the curent view controler with an alpha of 0   We then do a cross fade    After that we pop the view controller off the stack without animating it    Then the cleanup happens  if the view that was popped is not released  then we   need to remove the subview we added and change some titles back  newTopViewController view alpha   0 0   topViewController view addSubview newTopViewController view    topViewController view bringSubviewToFront newTopViewController view   NSString  title    topViewController title retain   UIBarButtonItem  lButtonItem   topViewController navigationItem leftBarButtonItem  UIBarButtonItem  rButtonItem   topViewController navigationItem rightBarButtonItem     set the new buttons on top of the current controller from the new top controller if newTopViewController navigationItem leftBarButtonItem    nil         topViewController navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem newTopViewController navigationItem leftBarButtonItem animated YES     if newTopViewController navigationItem rightBarButtonItem    nil         topViewController navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem newTopViewController navigationItem rightBarButtonItem animated YES       topViewController setTitle newTopViewController title      topViewController navigationItem leftBarButtonItem setTitle newTopViewController navigationItem leftBarButtonItem title    NSArray  array   nil  if rButtonItem    nil      array     NSArray alloc  initWithObjects topViewController title lButtonItem rButtonItem nil   else       array     NSArray alloc  initWithObjects topViewController title lButtonItem nil        UIView beginAnimations   pop view  context array    UIView setAnimationDidStopSelector  selector animationForCrossFadePopDidStop finished context      UIView setAnimationDelegate self    UIView setAnimationDuration 0 80    newTopViewController view setAlpha  1 0    UIView commitAnimations   return topViewController        - void animationForCrossFadePopDidStop  NSString   animationID finished  NSNumber   finished context  void   context     UIViewController  c     NSArray   context objectAtIndex 0     UIViewController  n     NSArray   context objectAtIndex 1   NSString  title     NSArray   context objectAtIndex 1   UIBarButtonItem  l     NSArray   context objectAtIndex 2   UIBarButtonItem  r   nil       Not all views have a right bar button   If we look for one that isn t there    we ll crash out and not complete this method  but the program will continue    So we need to check if it is therea nd skip it if it isn t  if   NSArray   context count     4      r     NSArray   context objectAtIndex 3      pop the current view from the stack without animation  super popViewControllerAnimated NO      if what was the current veiw controller is not nil  then lets correct the changes   we made to it  if c    nil          remove the subview we added for the transition       c view subviews lastObject  removeFromSuperview         reset the title we changed     c title   title       title release         replace the left bar button that we changed      c navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem l animated NO         if we were passed a right bar button item  replace that one as well     if r    nil           c navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem r animated NO       else            c navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem nil animated NO                  That s pretty much it   You ll need some additional code if you want to implement rotations   You ll need to set the frame size of your views that you add as subviews before you show them otherwise you ll run into issues the orientation is landscape  but the last time you saw the previous view it was portrait   So  then you add it as a sub view and fade it in but it shows up as portrait  then when we pop without animation  the same view  but the one that is in the stack  now is landscape   The whole thing looks a little funky   Everyone s implementation of rotation is a little different so I didn t include my code for that here   Hope it helps some people   I ve looked all over for something like this and couldn t find anything   I don t think this is the perfect answer  but it is working real well for me at this point

User · Answer

How to change the Push and Pop animations in a navigation based app     For 2019  the  quot final answer  quot  Preamble  Say you are new to iOS development  Confusingly  Apple provide two transitions which can be used easily  These are   quot crossfade quot  and  quot flip quot   But of course   quot crossfade quot  and  quot flip quot  are useless  They are never used  Nobody knows why Apple provided those two useless transitions  So  Say you want to do an ordinary  common  transition such as  quot slide quot   In that case  you have to do a HUGE amount of work   That work  is explained in this post  Just to repeat  Surprisingly  with iOS  if you want the simplest  most common  everyday transitions  such as an ordinary slide   you do have to all the work of implementing a full custom transition  Here s how to do it     1  You need a custom UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning  You need a bool of your own like popStyle    Is it popping on  or popping off    You must include transitionDuration  trivial  and the main call  animateTransition  In fact you must write two different routines for inside animateTransition   One for the push  and one for the pop   Probably name them animatePush and animatePop  Inside animateTransition  just branch on popStyle to the two routines  The example below does a simple move-over move-off  In your animatePush and animatePop routines  You must get the  quot from view quot  and the  quot to view quot    How to do that  is shown in the code example    and you must addSubview for the new  quot to quot  view   and you must call completeTransition at the end of your anime   So      class SimpleOver  NSObject  UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning                    var popStyle  Bool   false                  func transitionDuration              using transitionContext  UIViewControllerContextTransitioning   - gt  TimeInterval               return 0 20                            func animateTransition using transitionContext  UIViewControllerContextTransitioning                             if popStyle                                    animatePop using  transitionContext                  return                                        let fz   transitionContext viewController forKey  UITransitionContextViewControllerKey from               let tz   transitionContext viewController forKey  UITransitionContextViewControllerKey to                            let f   transitionContext finalFrame for  tz                           let fOff   f offsetBy dx  f width  dy  55              tz view frame   fOff                          transitionContext containerView insertSubview tz view  aboveSubview  fz view                           UIView animate                  withDuration  transitionDuration using  transitionContext                   animations                        tz view frame   f                completion     in                      transitionContext completeTransition true                                            func animatePop using transitionContext  UIViewControllerContextTransitioning                             let fz   transitionContext viewController forKey  UITransitionContextViewControllerKey from               let tz   transitionContext viewController forKey  UITransitionContextViewControllerKey to                            let f   transitionContext initialFrame for  fz              let fOffPop   f offsetBy dx  f width  dy  55                           transitionContext containerView insertSubview tz view  belowSubview  fz view                           UIView animate                  withDuration  transitionDuration using  transitionContext                   animations                        fz view frame   fOffPop                completion     in                      transitionContext completeTransition true                                  And then     2  Use it in your view controller  Note  strangely  you only have to do this in the  quot first quot  view controller    The one which is  quot underneath quot    With the one that you pop on top  do nothing  Easy  So your class    class SomeScreen  UIViewController      becomes    class FrontScreen  UIViewController          UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate  UINavigationControllerDelegate            let simpleOver   SimpleOver             override func viewDidLoad                      super viewDidLoad           navigationController  delegate   self            func navigationController            navigationController  UINavigationController          animationControllerFor operation  UINavigationControllerOperation          from fromVC  UIViewController          to toVC  UIViewController  - gt  UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning                     simpleOver popStyle    operation     pop          return simpleOver          That s it  Push and pop exactly as normal  no change  To push     let n   UIStoryboard name   quot nextScreenStoryboardName quot   bundle  nil             instantiateViewController withIdentifier   quot nextScreenStoryboardID quot             as  NextScreen navigationController  pushViewController n  animated  true   and to pop it  you can if you like just do that on the next screen  class NextScreen  TotallyOrdinaryUIViewController             IBAction func userClickedBackOrDismissOrSomethingLikeThat                      navigationController  popViewController animated  true           Phew   3  Also enjoy the other answers on this page which explain how to override AnimatedTransitioning Scroll to  AlanZeino and  elias answer for more discussion on how to AnimatedTransitioning in iOS apps these days

User · Answer

Using iJordan s answer as inspiration  why not simply create a Category on UINavigationController to use throughout your app instead of copying pasting this animation code all over the place   UINavigationController Animation h   interface UINavigationController  Animation   -  void  pushViewControllerWithFlip  UIViewController   controller   -  void  popViewControllerWithFlip    end   UINavigationController Animation m   implementation UINavigationController  Animation   -  void  pushViewControllerWithFlip  UIViewController    controller        UIView animateWithDuration 0 50                      animations                              UIView setAnimationCurve UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut                             self pushViewController controller animated NO                             UIView setAnimationTransition UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView self view cache NO                               -  void  popViewControllerWithFlip        UIView animateWithDuration 0 5                      animations                              UIView setAnimationCurve UIViewAnimationCurveEaseInOut                             UIView setAnimationTransition UIViewAnimationTransitionFlipFromRight forView self view cache NO                                  self popViewControllerAnimated NO       end   Then simply import the UINavigationController Animation h file and call it normally    self navigationController pushViewControllerWithFlip   NewViewController alloc  init      self navigationController popViewControllerWithFlip

User · Answer

It s very simple  self navigationController  view semanticContentAttribute    forceRightToLeft

User · Answer

While all the answers here are great and most work very well  there is a slightly simpler method which achieves the same effect     For Push     NextViewController  nextViewController     NextViewController alloc  init         Shift the view to take the status bar into account    CGRect frame   nextViewController view frame    frame origin y -  20    frame size height    20    nextViewController view frame   frame      UIView transitionFromView self navigationController topViewController view toView nextViewController view duration 0 5 options UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight completion   BOOL finished         self navigationController pushViewController nextViewController animated NO           For Pop     int numViewControllers   self navigationController viewControllers count    UIView  nextView     self navigationController viewControllers objectAtIndex numViewControllers - 2  view       UIView transitionFromView self navigationController topViewController view toView nextView duration 0 5 options UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft completion   BOOL finished         self navigationController popViewControllerAnimated NO

User · Answer

I am not aware of any way you can change the transition animation publicly    If the  back  button is not necessary you should use modal view controllers to have the  push from bottom     flip     fade      3 2  page curl  transitions     On the private side  the method -pushViewController animated  calls the undocumented method -pushViewController transition forceImmediate   so e g  if you want a flip-from-left-to-right transition  you can use   navCtrler pushViewController ctrler transition 10 forceImmediate NO     You can t change the  pop  transition this way  however

User · Answer

You can now use UIView transition  Note that animated false  This works with any transition option  pop  push  or stack replace   if let nav   self navigationController       UIView transition with nav view  duration 0 3  options  transitionCrossDissolve  animations                nav popViewController animated false         completion nil

User · Answer

Have a look at ADTransitionController  a drop in replacement for UINavigationController with custom transition animations  its API matches the API of UINavigationController  that we created at Applidium    You can use different pre-defined animations for push and pop actions such as Swipe  Fade  Cube  Carrousel  Zoom and so on

[ios] How to change the Push and Pop animations in a navigation based app

Examples related to ios

Examples related to animation

Examples related to uinavigationcontroller