Ios – PresentViewController a non full screen UIViewController with UINavigationController in it

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I am trying to figure out if there is a way to present a UIViewController which is not full screen. It should be of custom size & not what can be achieved using modalPresentationStyle.

I wanted to create a view like the native Twitter/Facebook sharing sheet's size with UINavigationController so that I can push/pop more UIViewControllers. It should work for iPhone and iPad.

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You can use View Controller Containment to do this. See "Implementing A Container View Controller" at http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/UIKit/Reference/UIViewController_Class/Reference/Reference.html for more info. Basically you just need to call addChildViewController: before adding the child's view to your view, and removeFromParentViewController: before removing it.

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Ios – Modal UIViewController always coming out full screen on iPad. WHY

You must set modalPresentationStyle in the parent ViewController before calling presentModalViewController:animated.

myViewController = // create your new controller if needed 
myViewController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
myViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
// "self" is the parent ViewController
[self presentModalViewController:myViewController animated:YES]

Ios – Does UIViewController or UINavigationController set the size of it’s view

UINavigationController will automagically size a ViewController's view when pushed. From the docs:

pushViewController:animated:

The object in the viewController parameter becomes the top view controller on the navigation stack. Pushing a view controller results in the display of the view it manages. How that view is displayed is determined by the animated parameter. If the animated parameter is YES, the view is animated into position; otherwise, the view is simply displayed in place. The view is automatically resized to fit between the navigation bar and toolbar (if present) before it is displayed.

If you want to have a smaller view displayed then you'll have to create a container and make it a child of your VC's view, setting the size manually. The autoresize mask may have to be set properly, depending on how you create the view.

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