dismiss current view controller AFTER presenting new view controller - swift

Question

I\'m trying to dismiss a VC and present a new VC. but I don\'t want old VC to exist anymore. I use the code below to dismiss current VC and present new one. but this way, there\

Answer 1

Disclaimer

So unless you absolutely need to modally present your new VC, then I recommend just performing a segue between the two VCs. It seems that you are only presenting it modally because you want to manually dismiss it later from the original VC. Not only is using a segue this easier in my opinion, but it will also allow you to use the method I've outlined below.

Solution

This likely isn't the most elegant method, but you could pass the instance of the old VC through prepareForSegue to the next VC, and then dismiss it in the new VC's viewDidLoad.

For example, in your new VC you could have something like this:

class NewVC: UIViewController {

    ...
    var prevVC: PrevVC!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        prevVC.dismiss(animated: false, completion: nil)
    }

}

So when your newVC loads, it dismisses the previous VC. All you would need to do in your prevVC class is pass on the instance in prepareForSegue like so.

class PrevVC: UIViewController {
    ...
    override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
        if let destinationVC = segue.destination as? NewVC {

            destinationVC.prevVC = self

        }
    }

}

Then of course you would just have to present the newVC when you want and then everything else would be taken care of.