Swift delegate beetween two VC without segue

Question

I have 3 classes:

• ChatLogControoller
• GetImageFromLibraty(NSObject class)
• ImagePreviewViewController

I want to press a clip from the first VC, then open the media library to pick an image. Then the selected image is passed to the third VC as a previewController. Then if I select 'done' I want to pass it to the first VC.

1st VC

class ChatLogControoller: UICollectionViewController, UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout, NSFetchedResultsControllerDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate, UIImagePickerControllerDelegate, DataSentDelegate {

func recievePhoto(data: UIImage) {
    imageFromView = data
    print("-------\(imageFromView = data)")
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    let vc = ImagePreviewController()
    self.vc.delegate = self
}

2nd class its just picker of image, so i pass image to 3rd VC and this image appears on imageView of 3rd VC successfully!

my 3rd VC

protocol DataSentDelegate {
    func recievePhoto(data: UIImage)
}
class PreviewController: UIViewController, UIScrollViewDelegate {

var delegate : DataSentDelegate? = nil

var aImageView: UIImageView!
var aImage: UIImage!

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Add", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(actionSend))
    navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Cancel", style: .plain, target: self, action: #selector(actionBack))

}

@objc func actionBack() {

    dismiss(animated: false, completion: nil)
}

@objc func actionSend() {

    let data = aImageView.image
    delegate?.recievePhoto(data: data!)
    dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Answer 1

You need to create one more protocol in your SecondViewController to Pass that delegate from ThirdViewController to FirstViewController.

FirstViewController:

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, DataSentDelegate, dataSentDelegate  {

    @IBOutlet weak var imagefromThirdVC: UIImageView!

    var thirdVCImage: UIImage!

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

    @IBAction func buttonTapped(_ sender: Any) { 
        let vc = storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "ViewController2") as! ViewController2
        vc.delegate = self
        self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
    }

    func goToThirdVC() {
        let vc = storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "ViewController3") as! ViewController3
        vc.delegate = self
        self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
    }

    func recievePhoto(data: UIImage) {
        thirdVCImage = data
        imagefromThirdVC.image = thirdVCImage
    }
}

SecondViewController:

import UIKit

protocol dataSentDelegate {
    func goToThirdVC()
}

class ViewController2: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var passingImage: UIImageView!

    var delegate: dataSentDelegate? = nil

    var images: UIImage!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        images = UIImage(named: "screen")
    }

    @IBAction func actionButton(_ sender: Any) {
        self.delegate?.goToThirdVC()
    }

}

ThirdViewController:

import UIKit

protocol DataSentDelegate {
    func recievePhoto(data: UIImage)
}

class ViewController3: UIViewController {

    var delegate: DataSentDelegate? = nil

    @IBOutlet weak var passedImageView: UIImageView!

    var passedImage: UIImage!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        passedImage = UIImage(named: "screen")
        passedImageView.image = passedImage
    }

    @IBAction func action(_ sender: Any) {

        let data = passedImageView.image
        delegate?.recievePhoto(data: data!)
        //   delegate?.goToFirstVC()

        guard let viewControllers = self.navigationController?.viewControllers else {
            return
        }

        for firstViewController in viewControllers {
            if firstViewController is ViewController {
                self.navigationController?.popToViewController(firstViewController, animated: true)
                break
            }
        }

    }

}