I would like to set the initial viewcontroller from the appdelegate. I found a really good answer, however it's in Objective C and im having trouble achieving the same thing in swift.
Programmatically set the initial view controller using Storyboards
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary*)launchOptions
{
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:UIScreen.mainScreen.bounds];
UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard" bundle:nil];
UIViewController *viewController = // determine the initial view controller here and instantiate it with [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:<storyboard id>];
self.window.rootViewController = viewController;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
Anyone able to help?
I want the initial Viewcontroller to be dependent on certain conditions being met using a conditional statement.
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The answer is
if you are not using storyboard, you can try this
var window: UIWindow?
var initialViewController :UIViewController?
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
initialViewController = MainViewController(nibName:"MainViewController",bundle:nil)
let frame = UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds
window = UIWindow(frame: frame)
window!.rootViewController = initialViewController
window!.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
Swift 3, Swift 4:
Change first line to
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool
the rest is same.
Swift 5+:
Instantiate root view controller from storyboard:
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// this line is important
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
// In project directory storyboard looks like Main.storyboard,
// you should use only part before ".storyboard" as its name,
// so in this example name is "Main".
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
// controller identifier sets up in storyboard utilities
// panel (on the right), it is called 'Storyboard ID'
let viewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "YourViewControllerIdentifier") as! YourViewController
self.window?.rootViewController = viewController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
If you want to use UINavigationController as root:
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// this line is important
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let viewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "YourViewControllerIdentifier") as! YourViewController
let navigationController = UINavigationController.init(rootViewController: viewController)
self.window?.rootViewController = navigationController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
Instantiate root view controller from xib:
It is almost the same, but instead of lines
let storyboard = UIStoryboard.init(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let viewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "YourViewControllerIdentifier") as! YourViewController
you'll have to write
let viewController = YourViewController(nibName: "YourViewController", bundle: nil)
Here is complete Solution in Swift 4 implement this in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
let isLogin = UserDefaults.standard.bool(forKey: "Islogin")
if isLogin{
self.NextViewController(storybordid: "OtherViewController")
}else{
self.NextViewController(storybordid: "LoginViewController")
}
}
write this Function any where inside Appdelegate.swift
func NextViewController(storybordid:String)
{
let storyBoard:UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let exampleVC = storyBoard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier:storybordid )
// self.present(exampleVC, animated: true)
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
self.window?.rootViewController = exampleVC
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
I had done in Xcode 8 and swift 3.0 hope it will be useful for u, and its working perfectly. Use following code :
var window: UIWindow?
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "ViewController")
self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
And If you are using the navigation controller, then use following code for that:
var window: UIWindow?
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let navigationController:UINavigationController = storyboard.instantiateInitialViewController() as! UINavigationController
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("ViewController")
navigationController.viewControllers = [initialViewController]
self.window?.rootViewController = navigationController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
Well all the answers above/below are producing a warning about no entry point in storyboard.
If you want to have 2 (or more) entry view controllers that depend on some condition (say conditionVariable) then what you should do is:
- In your Main.storyboard create UINavigationController without rootViewController, set it as entry point
- Create 2 (or more) "Show" segues into view controllers, assign them some id, say id1 and id2
Use next code:
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate { var window: UIWindow? func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool { let navigationController = window!.rootViewController! as! UINavigationController navigationController.performSegueWithIdentifier(conditionVariable ? "id1" : "id2") return true }
Hope this helps.
Just in case you want to do it in the view controller and not in the app delegate: Just fetch the reference to the AppDelegate in your view controller and reset it's window object with the right view controller as it's rootviewController.
let appDelegate = UIApplication.sharedApplication().delegate as! AppDelegate
appDelegate.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)
let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let yourVC = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("YOUR_VC_IDENTIFIER") as! YourViewController
appDelegate.window?.rootViewController = yourVC
appDelegate.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
For swift 4.0.
In your AppDelegate.swift file in didfinishedlaunchingWithOptions method, put the following code.
var window: UIWindow?
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
let rootVC = MainViewController() // your custom viewController. You can instantiate using nib too. UIViewController(nib name, bundle)
//let rootVC = UIViewController(nibName: "MainViewController", bundle: nil) //or MainViewController()
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: rootVC) // Integrate navigation controller programmatically if you want
window?.rootViewController = navController
return true
}
Hope it will work just fine.
Here is a good way to approach it. This example places a navigation controller as the root view controller, and puts the view controller of your choice within it at the bottom of the navigation stack, ready for you to push whatever you need to from it.
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool
{
// mainStoryboard
let mainStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "MainStoryboard", bundle: nil)
// rootViewController
let rootViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("MainViewController") as? UIViewController
// navigationController
let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: rootViewController!)
navigationController.navigationBarHidden = true // or not, your choice.
// self.window
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)
self.window!.rootViewController = navigationController
self.window!.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
To make this example work you would set "MainViewController" as the Storyboard ID on your main view controller, and the storyboard's file name in this case would be "MainStoryboard.storyboard". I rename my storyboards this way because Main.storyboard to me is not a proper name, particularly if you ever go to subclass it.
I had done it in Objective-C. I hope it will be useful for you.
UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"Main" bundle:nil];
UIViewController *viewController;
NSUserDefaults *loginUserDefaults = [NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults];
NSString *check=[loginUserDefaults objectForKey:@"Checklog"];
if ([check isEqualToString:@"login"]) {
viewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"SWRevealViewController"];
} else {
viewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"LoginViewController"];
}
self.window.rootViewController = viewController;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
If you're not using the storyboard. You can initialize your main view controller programmatically.
Swift 4
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
let rootViewController = MainViewController()
let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: rootViewController)
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
self.window?.rootViewController = navigationController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
class MainViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
view.backgroundColor = .green
}
}
And also remove Main from Deployment Info.
I worked out a solution on Xcode 6.4 in swift.
// I saved the credentials on a click event to phone memory
@IBAction func gotobidderpage(sender: AnyObject) {
if (usernamestring == "bidder" && passwordstring == "day303")
{
rolltype = "1"
NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(usernamestring, forKey: "username")
NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(passwordstring, forKey: "password")
NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().setObject(rolltype, forKey: "roll")
self.performSegueWithIdentifier("seguetobidderpage", sender: self)
}
// Retained saved credentials in app delegate.swift and performed navigation after condition check
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
let usernamestring = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().stringForKey("username")
let passwordstring = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().stringForKey("password")
let rolltypestring = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults().stringForKey("roll")
if (usernamestring == "bidder" && passwordstring == "day303" && rolltypestring == "1")
{
// Access the storyboard and fetch an instance of the view controller
var storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
var viewController: BidderPage = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("bidderpageID") as! BidderPage
// Then push that view controller onto the navigation stack
var rootViewController = self.window!.rootViewController as! UINavigationController
rootViewController.pushViewController(viewController, animated: true)
}
// Override point for customization after application launch.
return true
}
Hope it helps !
Disable Main.storyboard
General -> Deployment Info -> Main Interface -> remove `Main`
Info.plist -> remove Key/Value for `UISceneStoryboardFile` and `UIMainStoryboardFile`
Add Storyboard ID
Main.storyboard -> Select View Controller -> Inspectors -> Identity inspector -> Storyboard ID -> e.g. customVCStoryboardId
Swift 5 and Xcode 11
Extend UIWindow
class CustomWindow : UIWindow {
//...
}
Edit generated by Xcode SceneDelegate.swift
class SceneDelegate: UIResponder, UIWindowSceneDelegate {
var window: CustomWindow!
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
guard let windowScene = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "customVCStoryboardId")
window = CustomWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
window.rootViewController = initialViewController
window.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
//...
}
Swift 4:
Add these lines inside AppDelegate.swift, within the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions() function...
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// Setting the Appropriate initialViewController
// Set the window to the dimensions of the device
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
// Grab a reference to whichever storyboard you have the ViewController within
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Name of Storyboard", bundle: nil)
// Grab a reference to the ViewController you want to show 1st.
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "Name of ViewController")
// Set that ViewController as the rootViewController
self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
// Sets our window up in front
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
Now, for example, many times we do something like this when we want to either drive the user to a login screen or to a initial setup screenl or back to the mainScreen of the app, etc. If you want to do something like that too, you can use this point as a fork-in-the-road for that.
Think about it. You could have a value stored in NSUserDefaults for instance that held a userLoggedIn Boolean and if userLoggedIn == false { use this storyboard & initialViewController... } else { use this storyboard & initialViewController... }
Open a viewcontroller with SWRevealViewController From App delegate.
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "StoryboardName", bundle: nil)
let swrevealviewcontroller:SWRevealViewController = storyboard.instantiateInitialViewController() as! SWRevealViewController
self.window?.rootViewController = swrevealviewcontroller
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
Try this. For example:
You should use UINavigationController as the initial view controller. Then, you can set any view controller as root from the storyboard.
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let navigationController = storyboard.instantiateInitialViewController() as UINavigationController
let rootViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("VC") as UIViewController
navigationController.viewControllers = [rootViewController]
self.window?.rootViewController = navigationController
return true
}
I find this answer helpful and works perfectly for my case when i needed to change the rootviewcontroller if my app user already exist in the keychain or userdefault.
Code for Swift 4.2 and 5 code:
var window: UIWindow?
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "dashboardVC")
self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
And for Xcode 11+ and for Swift 5+ :
class SceneDelegate: UIResponder, UIWindowSceneDelegate {
var window: UIWindow?
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
if let windowScene = scene as? UIWindowScene {
let window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
window.rootViewController = // Your RootViewController in here
self.window = window
window.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
}
}
Swift 5 & Xcode 11
So in xCode 11 the window solution is no longer valid inside of appDelegate. They moved this to the SceneDelgate. You can find this in the SceneDelgate.swift file.
You will notice it now has a var window: UIWindow? present.
In my situation I was using a TabBarController from a storyboard and wanted to set it as the rootViewController.
This is my code:
sceneDelegate.swift
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 = self.window ?? UIWindow()//@JA- If this scene's self.window is nil then set a new UIWindow object to it.
//@Grab the storyboard and ensure that the tab bar controller is reinstantiated with the details below.
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let tabBarController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "tabBarController") as! UITabBarController
for child in tabBarController.viewControllers ?? [] {
if let top = child as? StateControllerProtocol {
print("State Controller Passed To:")
print(child.title!)
top.setState(state: stateController)
}
}
self.window!.rootViewController = tabBarController //Set the rootViewController to our modified version with the StateController instances
self.window!.makeKeyAndVisible()
print("Finished scene setting code")
guard let _ = (scene as? UIWindowScene) else { return }
}
Make sure to add this to the correct scene method as I did here. Note that you will need to set the identifier name for the tabBarController or viewController you are using in the storyboard.
In my case I was doing this to set a stateController to keep track of shared variables amongst the tab views. If you wish to do this same thing add the following code...
StateController.swift
import Foundation
struct tdfvars{
var rbe:Double = 1.4
var t1half:Double = 1.5
var alphaBetaLate:Double = 3.0
var alphaBetaAcute:Double = 10.0
var totalDose:Double = 6000.00
var dosePerFraction:Double = 200.0
var numOfFractions:Double = 30
var totalTime:Double = 168
var ldrDose:Double = 8500.0
}
//@JA - Protocol that view controllers should have that defines that it should have a function to setState
protocol StateControllerProtocol {
func setState(state: StateController)
}
class StateController {
var tdfvariables:tdfvars = tdfvars()
}
Note: Just use your own variables or whatever you are trying to keep track of instead, I just listed mine as an example in tdfvariables struct.
In each view of the TabController add the following member variable.
class SettingsViewController: UIViewController {
var stateController: StateController?
.... }
Then in those same files add the following:
extension SettingsViewController: StateControllerProtocol {
func setState(state: StateController) {
self.stateController = state
}
}
What this does is allows you to avoid the singleton approach to passing variables between the views. This allows easily for the dependency injection model which is much better long run then the singleton approach.
For new Xcode 11.xxx and Swift 5.xx, where the target it set to iOS 13+.
For the new project structure, AppDelegate does not have to do anything regarding rootViewController.
A new class is there to handle window(UIWindowScene) class -> 'SceneDelegate' file.
class SceneDelegate: UIResponder, UIWindowSceneDelegate {
var window: UIWindow?
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
if let windowScene = scene as? UIWindowScene {
let window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
window.rootViewController = // Your RootViewController in here
self.window = window
window.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
}
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)
let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
var exampleViewController: ExampleViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("ExampleController") as! ExampleViewController
self.window?.rootViewController = exampleViewController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
return true
}
iOS 13+
In the SceneDelegate:
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 = UIViewController() //Instead of UIViewController() we initilise our initial viewController
window?.rootViewController = vc
window?.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
For Swift 5+
var window: UIWindow?
func scene(_ scene: UIScene, willConnectTo session: UISceneSession, options connectionOptions: UIScene.ConnectionOptions) {
if let windowScene = scene as? UIWindowScene {
let window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
let submodules = (
home: HomeRouter.createModule(),
search: SearchRouter.createModule(),
exoplanets: ExoplanetsRouter.createModule()
)
let tabBarController = TabBarModuleBuilder.build(usingSubmodules: submodules)
window.rootViewController = tabBarController
self.window = window
window.makeKeyAndVisible()
}
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com