Swift – Instantiating a navigation controller without storyboards in App Delegate

Question

I\'m rebuilding an app without storyboards and the part of it that I\'m having the most trouble with is navigating view-to-view programatically. Few things are written out t

Answer 1

In AppDelegate

var window: UIWindow?
var navController: UINavigationController?

func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {

    navController = UINavigationController()
    var viewController: ViewController = ViewController()
    self.navController!.pushViewController(viewController, animated: false)

    self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds)

    self.window!.rootViewController = navController

    self.window!.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

    self.window!.makeKeyAndVisible()

    return true
}

In ViewController

class ViewController: UIViewController {

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.title = "FirstVC"

    var startFinishButton = UIButton.buttonWithType(UIButtonType.System) as! UIButton
    startFinishButton.frame = CGRectMake(100, 100, 100, 50)
    startFinishButton.backgroundColor = UIColor.greenColor()
    startFinishButton.setTitle("Test Button", forState: UIControlState.Normal)
    startFinishButton.addTarget(self, action: "buttonAction:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)

    self.view.addSubview(startFinishButton)
}

func buttonAction(sender:UIButton!)
{
    println("Button tapped")
    let vc = SecondViewController()
    self.navigationController?.pushViewController(vc, animated: true)
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}


}

Answer 2

In Swift 3

Place this code inside didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method in AppDelegate class.

window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
let mainController = MainViewController() as UIViewController
let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: mainController)
navigationController.navigationBar.isTranslucent = false
self.window?.rootViewController = navigationController
self.window?.makeKeyAndVisible()