Accessing a Top Navigation Controller from a Subview Navigation Controller

Question

I have a my views and controllers set up like so.

1. A Tab/Bar controller
2. Within 1. is a root view controller
3. within 2. is a programmatically create

Answer 1

Have a look at UIViewController's navigationController and tabBarController properties. These will return the corresponding navigationController or tabBarController that the given UIViewController 'belongs' to.

So you can do something like:

[customController.navigationController pushViewController:newController animated:YES];
// Similarly for tabBarController ...