How to change the Push and Pop animations in a navigation based app

Question

I have a navigation based application and I want to change the animation of the push and pop animations. How would I do that?

Edit 2018

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Answer 1

From the sample app, check out this variation. https://github.com/mpospese/MPFoldTransition/

#pragma mark - UINavigationController(MPFoldTransition)

@implementation UINavigationController(MPFoldTransition)

//- (void)pushViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
- (void)pushViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController foldStyle:(MPFoldStyle)style
{
    [MPFoldTransition transitionFromViewController:[self visibleViewController] 
                                  toViewController:viewController 
                                          duration:[MPFoldTransition defaultDuration]  
                                             style:style 
                                        completion:^(BOOL finished) {
                                            [self pushViewController:viewController animated:NO];
                                        }
     ];
}

- (UIViewController *)popViewControllerWithFoldStyle:(MPFoldStyle)style
{
    UIViewController *toController = [[self viewControllers] objectAtIndex:[[self viewControllers] count] - 2];

    [MPFoldTransition transitionFromViewController:[self visibleViewController] 
                                  toViewController:toController 
                                          duration:[MPFoldTransition defaultDuration] 
                                             style:style
                                        completion:^(BOOL finished) {
                                            [self popViewControllerAnimated:NO];
                                        }
     ];

    return toController;
}

Answer 2

Remember that in Swift, extension are definitely your friends!

public extension UINavigationController {

    /**
     Pop current view controller to previous view controller.

     - parameter type:     transition animation type.
     - parameter duration: transition animation duration.
     */
    func pop(transitionType type: String = kCATransitionFade, duration: CFTimeInterval = 0.3) {
        self.addTransition(transitionType: type, duration: duration)
        self.popViewControllerAnimated(false)
    }

    /**
     Push a new view controller on the view controllers's stack.

     - parameter vc:       view controller to push.
     - parameter type:     transition animation type.
     - parameter duration: transition animation duration.
     */
    func push(viewController vc: UIViewController, transitionType type: String = kCATransitionFade, duration: CFTimeInterval = 0.3) {
        self.addTransition(transitionType: type, duration: duration)
        self.pushViewController(vc, animated: false)
    }

    private func addTransition(transitionType type: String = kCATransitionFade, duration: CFTimeInterval = 0.3) {
        let transition = CATransition()
        transition.duration = duration
        transition.timingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction(name: kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut)
        transition.type = type
        self.view.layer.addAnimation(transition, forKey: nil)
    }

}

Answer 3

for push

CATransition *transition = [CATransition animation];
transition.duration = 0.3;
transition.type = kCATransitionFade;
//transition.subtype = kCATransitionFromTop;

[self.navigationController.view.layer addAnimation:transition forKey:kCATransition];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:ViewControllerYouWantToPush animated:NO];

for pop

CATransition *transition = [CATransition animation];
transition.duration = 0.3;
transition.type = kCATransitionFade;
//transition.subtype = kCATransitionFromTop;

[self.navigationController.view.layer addAnimation:transition forKey:kCATransition];
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:NO];

Answer 4

Based on jordanperry answer updated for swift 4

For push UIViewController

let yourVC = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "yourViewController") as! yourViewController
    UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.75, animations: {() -> Void in
    UIView.setAnimationCurve(.easeInOut)
    self.navigationController?.pushViewController(terms, animated: true)
    UIView.setAnimationTransition(.flipFromRight, for: (self.navigationController?.view)!, cache: false)
})

For Pop

UIView.animate(withDuration: 0.75, animations: {() -> Void in
    UIView.setAnimationCurve(.easeInOut)
    UIView.setAnimationTransition(.flipFromLeft, for: (self.navigationController?.view)!, cache: false)
})
navigationController?.popViewController(animated: false)

Answer 5

While all the answers here are great and most work very well, there is a slightly simpler method which achieves the same effect...

For Push:

  NextViewController *nextViewController = [[NextViewController alloc] init];

  // Shift the view to take the status bar into account 
  CGRect frame = nextViewController.view.frame;
  frame.origin.y -= 20;
  frame.size.height += 20;
  nextViewController.view.frame = frame;

  [UIView transitionFromView:self.navigationController.topViewController.view toView:nextViewController.view duration:0.5 options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight completion:^(BOOL finished) {
    [self.navigationController pushViewController:nextViewController animated:NO];
  }];

For Pop:

  int numViewControllers = self.navigationController.viewControllers.count;
  UIView *nextView = [[self.navigationController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:numViewControllers - 2] view];

  [UIView transitionFromView:self.navigationController.topViewController.view toView:nextView duration:0.5 options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft completion:^(BOOL finished) {
    [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:NO];
  }];}

Answer 6

Have a look at ADTransitionController, a drop in replacement for UINavigationController with custom transition animations (its API matches the API of UINavigationController) that we created at Applidium.

You can use different pre-defined animations for push and pop actions such as Swipe, Fade, Cube, Carrousel, Zoom and so on.