Programmatically change rootViewController of stor

Question

I have created my project using Storyboards. The root ViewController lies inside a Storyboard, I have not written a single code in the appDelegate.

Now I want to show a tour of my app, so I want to change the root ViewController from Tab Bar to my TourVC and when the tour of the app is finished , I want to again switch back my root ViewController to Tab Bar.

So I looked up online and followed the following points

1) Remove Storyboards from app.plist file, 2) Uncheck option "isInitialViewController" from Storyboards which is checked in case of Tab Bar controller because its a root ViewController, 3) Add this code in appDelegate.m file.

self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
ProductTourViewController *PT = [[ProductTourViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"ProductTourViewController" bundle:nil];
self.window.rootViewController = PT;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;

But my app crashes with this error log,

[ProductTourViewController selectedViewController]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x1766a9e0

And also I get a warning,

Unsupported Configuration: Scene is unreachable due to lack of entry points and does not have an identifier for runtime access via -instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:.

Answer 1

Objective-C:

UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"MainStoryboard" bundle:nil];
UITabBarController *rootViewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"tabBarcontroller"];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow setRootViewController:rootViewController];

Swift :

 let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
 let viewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("tabBarcontroller") as UITabBarController  
   UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.rootViewController = viewController;

Swift 3:

let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let viewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "tabBarcontroller") as! UITabBarController
UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController = viewController

Answer 2

Swift 3 code:

Use below in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions Appdelegate function. Replace "HomeViewController" with ViewController you want to set as Root ViewController on app launch.

self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)

let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)

let initialViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "HomeViewController")

self.window?.rootViewController = initialViewController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()

return true

Answer 3

This is an old article, but I will reply. I do not recommend the following code.

let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let viewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "tabBarcontroller") as! UITabBarController
UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController = viewController

Because you are creating two instances. I recommend writing the following code in the appropriate ViewController.

let appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as! AppDelegate
appDelegate.window?.rootViewController = self

Answer 4

Set storyboard ID for your class in your main storyboard.

UIStoryboard *MainStoryboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"Main"
                                                                     bundle: nil];

UINavigationController *controller = (UINavigationController*)[MainStoryboard
                                                                           instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier: @"RootNavigationController"];


LoginViewController *login=[MainStoryboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"LoginViewController"];
            [controller setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObject:login] animated:YES];
self.window.rootViewController=controller;

Answer 5

In swift we can implement it is as following

let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "StartingPage", bundle: NSBundle.mainBundle())      
let loginView: SignInVC = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SignInVC") as! SignInVC
UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.rootViewController = loginView

Answer 6

I use simple this:

UIStoryboard *sb = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"NameOfStoryBoard" bundle:nil];
UITabBarController *rootViewController = [sb instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"NameOfTabBarController"];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow setRootViewController:rootViewController];