iOS: Warning “attempt to present ViewController whose view is not in the window hierarchy”

Question

I am getting following warning when I try to present a ActivityController on navigation controller,

Attempt to present <UIActivityViewController: 0x15be1d60> on <UINavigationController: 0x14608e80> whose view is not in the window hierarchy!

I have tried to present view controller by following code,

UIActivityViewController * activityController = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:activityItems applicationActivities:applicationActivities];
    activityController.excludedActivityTypes = excludeActivities;

    UIViewController *vc = self.view.window.rootViewController;
    [vc presentViewController: activityController animated: YES completion:nil];

    [activityController setCompletionHandler:^(NSString *activityType, BOOL completed) {
        NSLog(@"completed");

    }];

Whats going wrong here ?

Answer 1

You are trying to present a view controller from the rootViewController. In your case I think the rootViewController is not the current ViewController. Either you presented or pushed a new UIViewController on top of it. You should present a view controller from the top most view controller itself.

You need to change:

UIViewController *vc = self.view.window.rootViewController;
[vc presentViewController: activityController animated: YES completion:nil];

to:

[self presentViewController: activityController animated: YES completion:nil];

Answer 2

Analysis： Because the present modal view ViewController class has not been loaded into the window. This is equivalent to the building, second floor haven't built, directly go to cover 3 floor, this is definitely not. Only after load ViewController's view ;

Python

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {

 [super viewDidAppear:animated];

    [self showAlertViewController];

}

- (void)showAlertViewController {

    UIAlertController *alertController = [UIAlertController alertControllerWithTitle:@"Hello world" message:@"(* ￣3)(ε￣ *)d" preferredStyle:UIAlertControllerStyleAlert];

    // Create the actions.

    UIAlertAction *cancelAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"hello" style:UIAlertActionStyleCancel handler:^(UIAlertAction *action) {
        NSLog(@"The \"Okay/Cancel\" alert's cancel action occured.");
    }];

    UIAlertAction *otherAction = [UIAlertAction actionWithTitle:@"world" style:UIAlertActionStyleDefault handler:^(UIAlertAction *action) {
        NSLog(@"The \"Okay/Cancel\" alert's other action occured.");
    }];

    // Add the actions.
    [alertController addAction:cancelAction];
    [alertController addAction:otherAction];

    UIWindow *windows = [[UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate window];
    UIViewController *vc = windows.rootViewController;
    [vc presentViewController:alertController animated: YES completion:nil];
}

This's worked for me.

Answer 3

Replace line:

UIViewController *vc = self.view.window.rootViewController;
[vc presentViewController: activityController animated: YES completion:nil];
//to
[self presentViewController:activityController animated: YES completion:nil];

or

[self.navigationController pushViewController:activityController animated:YES];

Answer 4

I faced the similar issue in iPhone 6+.

In Swift 2.0

let obj = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("navChatController") as! UINavigationController
obj.modalPresentationStyle = .FormSheet
obj.modalTransitionStyle = .CoverVertical

Constants.APPDELEGATE.window?.rootViewController?.presentViewController(obj, animated: false, completion: nil)

I solved it by this way.