Get top most UIViewController

Question

I can\'t seem to get the top most UIViewController without access to a UINavigationController. Here is what I have so far:

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Answer 1

Too many flavours but none an iterative elaborated one. Combined from the previous ones:

     func topMostController() -> UIViewController? {
        var from = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController
        while (from != nil) {
            if let to = (from as? UITabBarController)?.selectedViewController {
                from = to
            } else if let to = (from as? UINavigationController)?.visibleViewController {
                from = to
            } else if let to = from?.presentedViewController {
                from = to
            } else {
                break
            }
        }
        return from
    }

Answer 2

For swift 4 / 5 + to get topmost viewController

// MARK: UIApplication extensions

extension UIApplication {

    class func getTopViewController(base: UIViewController? = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController) -> UIViewController? {

        if let nav = base as? UINavigationController {
            return getTopViewController(base: nav.visibleViewController)

        } else if let tab = base as? UITabBarController, let selected = tab.selectedViewController {
            return getTopViewController(base: selected)

        } else if let presented = base?.presentedViewController {
            return getTopViewController(base: presented)
        }
        return base
    }
}

How to use

if let topVC = UIApplication.getTopViewController() {
   topVC.view.addSubview(forgotPwdView)
}

Answer 3

Based on Dianz answer, the Objective-C version

- (UIViewController *) topViewController {
   UIViewController *baseVC = UIApplication.sharedApplication.keyWindow.rootViewController;
   if ([baseVC isKindOfClass:[UINavigationController class]]) {
       return ((UINavigationController *)baseVC).visibleViewController;
   }

   if ([baseVC isKindOfClass:[UITabBarController class]]) {
       UIViewController *selectedTVC = ((UITabBarController*)baseVC).selectedViewController;
       if (selectedTVC) {
           return selectedTVC;
       }
   }

   if (baseVC.presentedViewController) {
       return baseVC.presentedViewController;
   }
   return baseVC;
}

Answer 4

https://gist.github.com/db0company/369bfa43cb84b145dfd8 I did some tests on the answers and comments on this site. For me, the following works

extension UIViewController {
    func topMostViewController() -> UIViewController {

        if let presented = self.presentedViewController {
            return presented.topMostViewController()
        }

        if let navigation = self as? UINavigationController {
            return navigation.visibleViewController?.topMostViewController() ?? navigation
        }

        if let tab = self as? UITabBarController {
            return tab.selectedViewController?.topMostViewController() ?? tab
    }

        return self
    }
}

extension UIApplication {
    func topMostViewController() -> UIViewController? {
        return self.keyWindow?.rootViewController?.topMostViewController()
    }
}

Then, get the top viewController by:

UIApplication.shared.topMostViewController()

Answer 5

Where did you put the code in?

I try your code in my demo, I found out, if you put the code in

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

will fail, because key window have been setting yet.

But I put your code in some view controller's

override func viewDidLoad() {

It just works.

Answer 6

For anyone looking for a swift 5/iOS 13+ solution (keywindow is deprecated since iOS 13)

extension UIApplication {

    class func getTopMostViewController() -> UIViewController? {
        let keyWindow = UIApplication.shared.windows.filter {$0.isKeyWindow}.first
        if var topController = keyWindow?.rootViewController {
            while let presentedViewController = topController.presentedViewController {
                topController = presentedViewController
            }
            return topController
        } else {
            return nil
        }
    }
}