UIPageViewController: get the currentPage

Question

I have been struggling with this issue for the last few days and after all this juggling I have figured out that all I need is the current Index from the datasource method to up

Answer 1

There is no nice way to do this but I think the most reliable way is to observe UIPageViewControllerDelegate calls:

var index: Int
var proposedViewController: UIViewController?

// MARK: UIPageViewControllerDelegate

func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, didFinishAnimating finished: Bool, previousViewControllers: [UIViewController], transitionCompleted completed: Bool) {
    guard let proposedViewController = proposedViewController,
        let index = myViewControllers?.index(of: proposedViewController) else {
            return
    }
    self.index = index
}

func pageViewController(_ pageViewController: UIPageViewController, willTransitionTo pendingViewControllers: [UIViewController]) {
    guard pendingViewControllers.count == 1,
        let proposedViewController = pendingViewControllers.first else {
        return
    }
    self.proposedViewController = proposedViewController
}