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Posted by Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith
iOS Development Techdegree Graduate 14,153 Points

swiping through different screens

I'm hoping this is super easy! I simply want to swipe left and right to navigate to different view controllers. I've tried messing with the swipe gesture recognizer and linking the view controllers...but I'm just stabbing in the dark. What's the easiest way to do it?

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Cody Coats
Cody Coats
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Cody Coats
Cody Coats
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UIPageViewController probably would be your best bet rather than trying to do something custom.

Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith
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ok thank you... I just have a hard time following the docs. I got it to go to the next page simply by swiping left and right... but it always comes up from the bottom as opposed to side to side. (just using normal view controllers that is). I'll experience with page view controllers. thank you!

Cody Coats
Cody Coats
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PageViewController has options for Navigation Orientation and Directions that should allow you to configure where they transition from. This should be pretty easy to do using StoryBoard.

Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith
iOS Development Techdegree Graduate 14,153 Points

I'm having trouble getting anything to work. I'm not quite sure how to actually link my view controllers to the page view controller. The docs are too confusing for me (i'm a novice). This seems like it should be a simple task...but I'm having the hardest time!

I have 3 view controllers (view 1, view 2, view 3). then I dragged in the Page View Controller. Now what? lol!

**Amit Bijlani and Pasan Premaratne , any plans to have a quick section on this? :)

Cody Coats
Cody Coats
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Cody Coats
Cody Coats
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In Xcode if you start a new project there is the choice of "Page based Application". This is done programmatically rather than in storyboard. Might give you a good starting point.

Also this tutorial might be good as well. It does a Page based application in storyboard.

Something I do when I get stuck on something like this is go to github and search for what you are trying to do. You can find quite a few complete projects that you can model.

Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith
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Taylor Smith
iOS Development Techdegree Graduate 14,153 Points

yeah i've tried to follow that tutorial...but I don't know objective C, i'm learning swift. I'll just keep plugging away i guess

Cody Coats
Cody Coats
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Yeah there aren't a lot of swift tutorials. I would watch the Obj-C videos here on treehouse so you can get used to translating Obj-C -> Swift