Push ViewController from Right To Left with UINavigationController

Question

As everyone know the UINavigationController push a ViewController from Left To Right, is there a way to push the View from Right To Left? like the animation for the back but

Answer 1

Just an improvement of the best answer here in my opinion:

UIViewController *newVC = ...;
[self.navigationController setViewControllers:@[newVC, self] animated:NO];
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

And to go back to the initial controller, just do a push to it.

Answer 2

No, right to left is reserved for popping viewcontrollers from the navigation stack. You can however get such an effect by animating the views yourself. Something like:

[UIView beginAnimations:@"rightToLeft" context:NULL];
CGRect newFrame = aView.frame;
newFrame.origin.x -= newFrame.size.width;
aView.frame = newFrame;
[UIView commitAnimations];

This will however not do anything to your navigation controller.

Answer 3

Try this :  
//Push effect in reverse way
    CATransition* transition = [CATransition animation];
    transition.duration = 0.75;
    transition.type = kCATransitionPush;
    transition.subtype = kCATransitionFromLeft;
    [self.navigationController.view.layer addAnimation:transition forKey:kCATransition];
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:vc animated:NO];

Answer 4

You can create a NSMutableArray from the navigationController's array of viewcontrollers and insert new viewController before the current one. Then set the viewControllers array without animation and pop back.

UIViewController *newVC = ...;
NSMutableArray *vcs =  [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:self.navigationController.viewControllers];
[vcs insertObject:newVC atIndex:[vcs count]-1];
[self.navigationController setViewControllers:vcs animated:NO];
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

Answer 5

You seem to want to "pop back". This can be achieved by three methods on your UINavigationController instance:

To come back to the "root" controller:

-(NSArray *)popToRootViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)animated

Or to come back to one of the previous controllers :

-(NSArray *)popToViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated

Or to come back to the previously pushed controller :

-(UIViewController *)popViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)animated

Answer 6

Based on previous best answers, you can make UINavigationController extension and preserve the navigation stack as follows:

extension UINavigationController {
    /// Pushes view controller into navigation stack with backwards animation.
    func pushBackwards(viewController newViewController: UIViewController) {
        if let currentController = viewControllers.last {
            let previousControllers = viewControllers[0..<viewControllers.endIndex-1]
            var controllers = Array(previousControllers + [newViewController, currentController])
            setViewControllers(controllers, animated: false)
            popViewController(animated: true)
            // Adjusting the navigation stack
            _ = controllers.popLast()
            controllers.insert(currentController, at: controllers.count-1)
            setViewControllers(controllers, animated: false)
        } else {
            // If there is no root view controller, set current one without animation.
            setViewControllers([newViewController], animated: false)
        }
    }
}