Swift Custom Back Button and Destination

Question

I am currently using SWRevealViewController for a sidebar menu in my app. When I click one of the options, the destination view controller doesn't have a 'back' button because it hasn't come from a proper view controller (i.e. page to go back to).

Therefore I am wanting to manually create a back button on the destination view controller which will go back to the home view controller.

I have looked at the code here: How do I manually set the "Back" destination in iOS apps

But I am struggling to implement this in Swift (one error after another!). Any help? Thanks!

EDIT

I have tried the suggestion below, but the back button just doesn't appear. This may have something to with the fact I have the navbar hidden in other views and do the following on the destination view:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    navigationController.setNavigationBarHidden(false, animated:true)
    var myBackButton:UIButton = UIButton.buttonWithType(UIButtonType.Custom) as UIButton
    myBackButton.addTarget(self, action: "popToRoot:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)

    var myCustomBackButtonItem:UIBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: myBackButton)
    self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = myCustomBackButtonItem
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
}

func popToRoot(sender:UIBarButtonItem){
    self.navigationController.popToRootViewControllerAnimated(true)
}

Not sure why the back button won't show up?

Edit

This is the prepareForSegue from my sidebar view controller. If there is a way to check for the segue identifier 'test' then I can set the back button from here?

- (void) prepareForSegue: (UIStoryboardSegue *) segue sender: (id) sender
{
// Set the title of navigation bar by using the menu items
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [self.tableView indexPathForSelectedRow];
UINavigationController *destViewController = (UINavigationController*)segue.destinationViewController;
destViewController.title = [[_menuItems objectAtIndex:indexPath.row] capitalizedString];


if ( [segue isKindOfClass: [SWRevealViewControllerSegue class]] ) {
    SWRevealViewControllerSegue *swSegue = (SWRevealViewControllerSegue*) segue;

    swSegue.performBlock = ^(SWRevealViewControllerSegue* rvc_segue, UIViewController* svc, UIViewController* dvc) {

        UINavigationController* navController = (UINavigationController*)self.revealViewController.frontViewController;
        [navController setViewControllers: @[dvc] animated: NO ];
        [self.revealViewController setFrontViewPosition: FrontViewPositionLeft animated: YES];
    };

}

}

Answer 1

Swift 3.0 Solution:

    self.navigationController?.setNavigationBarHidden(false, animated:false)

        //Create back button of type custom

        let myBackButton:UIButton = UIButton.init(type: .custom)
        myBackButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(ViewController.popToRoot(sender:)), for: .touchUpInside)
        myBackButton.setTitle("Back".localized(), for: .normal)
        myBackButton.setTitleColor(.blue, for: .normal)
        myBackButton.sizeToFit()

       //Add back button to navigationBar as left Button

        let myCustomBackButtonItem:UIBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: myBackButton)
        self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem  = myCustomBackButtonItem



 func popToRoot(sender:UIBarButtonItem){
        _ = self.navigationController?.popToRootViewController(animated: true)
    }

Answer 2

In Swift 2.1

I am customizing Navigation Bar Items this way

• I can change Navigation bar background image, title text, text color
• I can show/hide back button
• I can Change Title/ Icon or custom action method

In AppDelegate I have

func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool
    {
        //Cutomize navigation bar
        let navBgImage:UIImage = UIImage(named: "dummy_navigation_bg_image")!
        UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(navBgImage, forBarMetrics: .Default)
        UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
        UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.whiteColor()];


        return true
    }

In ViewController I update Navigation Items in viewWillAppear method this way

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool)
    {
        super.viewWillAppear(animated)
        setupNavigationBar()
    }

    // MARK: - NavigationBar methods
    func setupNavigationBar ()
    {

        //current tab screen title
        tabBarController?.title = "Manage"

        //Hide back button or left bar button
        tabBarController?.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: " ", style: .Plain, target: nil, action: nil)

        //custom right bar button
        var image = UIImage(named: "dummy_settings_icon")
        image = image?.imageWithRenderingMode(UIImageRenderingMode.AlwaysOriginal)
        tabBarController?.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(image: image, style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, target: self, action:  "settingButtonAction")
    }

    func settingButtonAction()
    {
        print("Setting Button tapped")
        performSegueWithIdentifier("loadAccountSettingsSegue", sender: nil)

    }

Answer 3

Here's an updated version for Swift 2/2.1:

self.navigationController? .setNavigationBarHidden(false, animated:true)
let backButton = UIButton(type: UIButtonType.Custom)
backButton.addTarget(self, action: "methodCall:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
backButton.setTitle("TITLE", forState: UIControlState.Normal)
backButton.sizeToFit()
let backButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: backButton)
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButtonItem

Answer 4

You can write that in swift like this

Write this to add button on navigationController

    navigationController.setNavigationBarHidden(false, animated:true)
    var myBackButton:UIButton = UIButton.buttonWithType(UIButtonType.Custom) as UIButton
    myBackButton.addTarget(self, action: "popToRoot:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
    myBackButton.setTitle("YOUR TITLE", forState: UIControlState.Normal)
    myBackButton.setTitleColor(UIColor.blueColor(), forState: UIControlState.Normal)
    myBackButton.sizeToFit()
    var myCustomBackButtonItem:UIBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: myBackButton)
     self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem  = myCustomBackButtonItem

this will pops to rootViewController

    func popToRoot(sender:UIBarButtonItem){
       self.navigationController.popToRootViewControllerAnimated(true)
    }