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iOS

Nick Sint
Nick Sint
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Posted by Nick Sint
Nick Sint
4,208 Points

Navigation controller stack and Modal Views

Hi all,

I am currently building an app whereby all the view controllers (vc1, vc2, vc3 etc...) are in a navigation controller thus are all in the navigation stack.

In the last view controller (call it vc5), I want to add a modal segue to another view controller (mc1) since it will represent features not necessarily related to the core purpose of the app.

My question is this:

  1. How should I programmatically present mc1 (i.e. do I use performSegueWithIdentifier or presentModalViewController? etc...)

  2. How should I dismiss mc1 ? (do I use dismissViewController? Do I need to add another segue that goes from mc1 to vc5?) Obviously I still want to keep the stack present in its original order (vc1->vc2->vc3->vc4->vc5)

Thanks!