Swift – Get top most UIViewController

swiftuiviewcontroller

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

UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.rootViewController?.presentViewController(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)

However, it does not seem to do anything. The keyWindow and rootViewController seem to be non-nil values too, so the optional chaining shouldn't be an issue.

NOTE: It is a bad idea to do something like this. It breaks the MVC pattern.

Best Answer

presentViewController shows a view controller. It doesn't return a view controller. If you're not using a UINavigationController, you're probably looking for presentedViewController and you'll need to start at the root and iterate down through the presented views.

if var topController = UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.rootViewController {
    while let presentedViewController = topController.presentedViewController {
        topController = presentedViewController
    }

    // topController should now be your topmost view controller
}

For Swift 3+:

if var topController = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController {
    while let presentedViewController = topController.presentedViewController {
        topController = presentedViewController
    }

    // topController should now be your topmost view controller
}

For iOS 13+

let keyWindow = UIApplication.shared.windows.filter {$0.isKeyWindow}.first

if var topController = keyWindow?.rootViewController {
    while let presentedViewController = topController.presentedViewController {
        topController = presentedViewController
    }

// topController should now be your topmost view controller
}

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Ios – Get to UIViewController from UIView

Using the example posted by Brock, I modified it so that it is a category of UIView instead UIViewController and made it recursive so that any subview can (hopefully) find the parent UIViewController.

@interface UIView (FindUIViewController)
- (UIViewController *) firstAvailableUIViewController;
@end

@implementation UIView (FindUIViewController)
- (UIViewController *) firstAvailableUIViewController {
    UIResponder *responder = [self nextResponder];
    while (responder != nil) {
        if ([responder isKindOfClass:[UIViewController class]]) {
            return (UIViewController *)responder;
        }
        responder = [responder nextResponder];
    }
    return nil;
}

@end

To use this code, add it into an new class file (I named mine "UIKitCategories") and remove the class data... copy the @interface into the header, and the @implementation into the .m file. Then in your project, #import "UIKitCategories.h" and use within the UIView code:

// from a UIView subclass... returns nil if UIViewController not available
UIViewController * myController = [self firstAvailableUIViewController];

Objective-c – Getting the top most UIViewController

You want visibleViewController:

The currently visible view can belong either to the view controller at the top of the navigation stack or to a view controller that was presented modally.

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Ios – Get to UIViewController from UIView

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