I'm busy building an app - that when launched for the first time it asks the user to do two things:
- Select a Country
- Accept T&Cs
From there it goes to the home view controller.
The problem I am currently facing is pushing the first view controller onto the screen from my app delegate. I'm using storyboards / Xcode 5/ iOS7
Here is the code I came up with:
UINavigationController *navigationController = (UINavigationController *)self.window.rootViewController;
UIStoryboard *mainStoryboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"Main_iPhone" bundle: nil];
BBCounterySettingsViewController *controller = (BBCounterySettingsViewController*)[mainStoryboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier: @"CountrySettings"];
[navigationController pushViewController:controller animated:NO];
The problem is the app crashes when it hits the last line of code with the following error:
* Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '-[UIViewController
pushViewController:animated:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance
0x8e9a400'
Anyone have any ideas what I am doing wrong?
You're expecting the self.window.rootViewController
to be a UINavigationController
but it's a UIViewController
. This means that the outermost view controller in your storyboard is of the wrong type.
A better way to obtain the UINavigationController
(Which should work in this case) is to use the property self.navigationController
on any UIViewController
.
From what I understand you want to present a view the first time the user runs to have the user pick some stuff. What you should then do is present a modal view controller, like this:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
//isFirstRun is some boolean you use to determine if it's the first run
if(isFirstRun){
BBCounterySettingsViewController *controller = (BBCounterySettingsViewController *)[mainStoryboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier: @"CountrySettings"];
[self.window.rootViewController presentViewController: controller animated:YES completion:nil];
}
There are two things you need to do:
- In Storyboard you have mentioned the controller name (eg LoginView) and enable use storyboard ID
Then you have user the below line
loginView = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"LoginView"];
[(UINavigationController*)self.window.rootViewController pushViewController:loginView animated:NO];
Hope this helps. Let me know if you're still having the issue.
[self performSegueWithIdentifier:@"buyListSegue" sender:sender];
I think the controller identifier "CountrySettings"
is set to the wrong controller. You're not getting a NavigationController
where you can call pushViewController
...