How can I force focus to change to a specific view in tvOS?

Question

I am implementing custom code to handle a click on the Menu button on the Siri Remote. How can I force focus to change to my custom menu when pressing the menu button?

Answer 1

Here is another implementation based on Slayters answer above. Its slightly more elegant I think than using the conditional booleans.

Put this in your viewcontroller

var viewToFocus: UIView? = nil {
    didSet {
        if viewToFocus != nil {
            self.setNeedsFocusUpdate();
            self.updateFocusIfNeeded();
        }
    }
}

override weak var preferredFocusedView: UIView? {
    if viewToFocus != nil {
        return viewToFocus;
    } else {
        return super.preferredFocusedView;
    }
}

Then to use it in your code

viewToFocus = myUIView;