UIPageViewController: return the current visible v

Question

How do you know what is the current page/view displayed inside an UIPageViewController?

I have overridden the viewDidAppear method of my child views, so that they send an id to the parent view in their viewDidAppear method.

However, the problem is this: i cannot reliably use that id as id for the displayed page. because if the user turns the page but halfway through decides to stop the turning and put the page back, viewDidAppear will already have been called. (the view is visible behind the curled page).

Maybe i should only switch to a new id if the current view disappears. But I wonder if there is not a more simple way to return the view that is currently visible?

Answer 1

I have a viewControllers array, that I display in the UIPageViewController.

extension MyViewController: UIPageViewControllerDataSource {

func presentationCount(for pageViewController: UIPageViewController) -> Int {
    return self.viewControllers.count
}

func presentationIndex(for pageViewController: UIPageViewController) -> Int {
    return self.currentPageIndex
}
}




extension MyViewController: UIPageViewControllerDelegate {

func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, didFinishAnimating finished: Bool, previousViewControllers: [UIViewController], transitionCompleted completed: Bool) {

    if !completed { return }

    guard let viewController = previousViewControllers.last, let index = indexOf(viewController: viewController) else {
        return
    }

    self.currentPageIndex = index

}

fileprivate func indexOf(viewController: UIViewController) -> Int? {
    let index = self.viewControllers.index(of: viewController)
    return index
}
}

Important thing to note here is that the setViewControllers method of UIPageViewController does not give any delegate callback. The delegate callbacks only represent user touch actions in the UIPageViewController.

Answer 2

I am keeping track of the page index by using a small function and specifying pageIndex as static NSInteger.

-(void) setPageIndex
{
    DataViewController *theCurrentViewController = [self.pageViewController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:0];

    pageIndex = [self.modelController indexOfViewController:theCurrentViewController];
}

and calling [self setPageIndex]; inside the function specified by Ole and also after detecting the change in orientation.

Answer 3

The solution below worked for me.

Apple could avoid a lot of hassle by making the native UIPageViewController scroll view pagination more configurable. I had to resort to overlaying a new UIView and UIPageControl just because the native UIPageViewController pagination won't support a transparent background or repositioning within the view frame.

- (void)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pvc didFinishAnimating:(BOOL)finished previousViewControllers:(NSArray *)previousViewControllers transitionCompleted:(BOOL)completed
{
  if (!completed)
  {
    return;
  }
  NSUInteger currentIndex = [[self.pageViewController.viewControllers lastObject] index];
  self.pageControl.currentPage = currentIndex;
}

Answer 4

How about asking for a viewController directly from the UIPageViewController (Swift 4 version):

fileprivate weak var currentlyPresentedVC: UIViewController?

func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, didFinishAnimating finished: Bool, previousViewControllers: [UIViewController], transitionCompleted completed: Bool) {
    currentlyPresentedVC = pageViewController.viewControllers?.first
}

Or, if you just need the currently presented view controller at some point of time, simply use pageViewController.viewControllers?.first at that time.

Answer 5

The simplest way to approach this IMHO is to use the PageControl to store the potential outcome of the transition and then revert if the transition was cancelled. This means that the page control changes as soon as the user starts swiping, which is ok by me. This requires that you have your own array of UIViewControllers (in this example called allViewControllers)

func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, willTransitionTo pendingViewControllers: [UIViewController]) {
    if let index = self.allViewControllers.index(of: pendingViewControllers[0]) {
        self.pageControl.currentPage = index
    }
}

func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, didFinishAnimating finished: Bool, previousViewControllers: [UIViewController], transitionCompleted completed: Bool) {
    if !completed, let previousIndex = self.allViewControllers.index(of: previousViewControllers[0]) {
        self.pageControl.currentPage = previousIndex
    }
}

Answer 6

Keeping track of our current page number in the delegate methods:

func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, viewControllerAfter viewController: UIViewController) -> UIViewController?     
func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, viewControllerBefore viewController: UIViewController) -> UIViewController

We use a helper getVC to update our page number and return the next/prev vc. This is a good place to do this because getVC only gets called if there is a next or previous vc.

///Helper
func getVC(for pgNum: Int) -> BasePageVC {

    let vc = storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "page"+String(pgNum)) as! BasePageVC
    vc.pageNumber = pgNum
    self.currentPage = pgNum    
    vc.data = self.data      
    return vc
}

/// Next Page
func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, viewControllerAfter viewController: UIViewController) -> UIViewController? {
    guard let vc = viewController as? BasePageVC else {
        fatalError("Vc is not BasePageViewController in viewControllerAfter")
    }

    let nextPage = vc.pageNumber! + 1
    guard nextPage < self.data.pages.count - 1 else { return nil }

    return getVC(for: nextPage)
}

/// Previous Page
func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, viewControllerBefore viewController: UIViewController) -> UIViewController? {
    guard let vc = viewController as? BasePageVC else {
        fatalError("Vc is not BasePageViewController in viewControllerAfter")
    }

    let prevPage = vc.pageNumber! - 1
    guard prevPage >= 0 else { return nil }

    return getVC(for: prevPage)
}