iOS: popViewController unexpected behavior

Question

I\'ve been searching the internet for a solution. There\'s nothing I could find. So: I\'m using a UINavigationController. I am pushing two UIViewControllers onto it. In the

Answer 1

Combining MilGra and Andrew's answers gave me something that works reliably and is a simpler drop-in UINavigationController replacement.

This improves on MilGra's answer to make it work with pushes and pops, but is simpler than Andrew's BufferedNavigationController. (Using BufferedNavigationController I was occasionally getting transitions that would never complete and would only show a black screen.)

This whole thing seems not to be necessary on iOS8, but was still needed for me on iOS7.

@implementation UINavigationControllerWithQueue {
    NSMutableArray *waitingList;
}

-(void) viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    self.delegate = self; // NOTE: delegate must be self!
    waitingList = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
}

# pragma mark - Overrides

-(void) pushViewController: (UIViewController*) controller
                  animated: (BOOL) animated {
    [self queueTransition:^{ [super pushViewController:controller animated:animated]; }];
}

- (UIViewController *)popViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)animated {
    UIViewController *result = [self.viewControllers lastObject];
    [self queueTransition:^{ [super popViewControllerAnimated:animated]; }];
    return result;
}

- (NSArray*)popToRootViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)animated {
    NSArray* results = [self.viewControllers copy];
    [self queueTransition:^{ [super popToRootViewControllerAnimated:animated]; }];
    return results;
}

# pragma mark - UINavigationControllerDelegate

-(void) navigationController: (UINavigationController*) navigationController
       didShowViewController: (UIViewController*) controller
                    animated: (BOOL) animated {
    [self dequeTransition];
}

# pragma mark - Private Methods

-(void) queueTransition:(void (^)()) transition {
    [waitingList addObject:transition];
    if (waitingList.count == 1) {
        transition();
    }
}

-(void) dequeTransition {
    if (waitingList.count > 0) {
        [waitingList removeObjectAtIndex:0];
    }
    if (waitingList.count > 0) {
        void (^transition)(void) = [waitingList objectAtIndex:0];
        if (transition) {
            transition();
        }
    }
}

@end