How to find topmost view controller on iOS

Question

I\'ve run into a couple of cases now where it would be convenient to be able to find the \"topmost\" view controller (the one responsible for the current view), but haven\'t

Answer 1

Another solution relies on the responder chain, which may or may not work depending on what the first responder is:

1. Get the first responder.
2. Get the UIViewController associated with that first responder.

Example pseudo code:

+ (UIViewController *)currentViewController {
    UIView *firstResponder = [self firstResponder]; // from the first link above, but not guaranteed to return a UIView, so this should be handled more appropriately.
    UIViewController *viewController = [firstResponder viewController]; // from the second link above
    return viewController;
}