How to show back button on the RootViewController of the UINavigationController?

Question

Here is my code. I want to put a back button on the opening rootviewController.

- (void)selectSurah:(id)sender {

    SurahTableViewController * surahTableVi         


        

Answer 1

Faizan,

Helium3 comment makes sense.

I suppose that your button is needed to dismiss the controller presented modally, is it true? Correct if I'm wrong.

If so, you could just create a new UIBarButtonItem and set is a left (or right) button for the UINavigationController navigationItem. To not break encapsulation create it in the viewDidLoad method for your SurahTableViewController controller.

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];

    // make attention to memory leak if you don't use ARC!!!
    self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Close"
           style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered
             target:self
             action:@selector(close:)];
}

-(void)close:(id)sender
{
    // to dismiss use dismissViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)flag completion:(void (^)(void))completion
    // dismissModalViewControllerAnimated: is deprecated

    [self dismissViewControllerAnimated:YES completion:^{ NSLog(@"controller dismissed"); }];
}