A UIViewController subclass for revealing a rear (left and/or right) view controller behind a front controller, inspired by the Facebook app, done right!
- A Reveal view controller implemented using view controller containment.
- API easier than a UINavigationController.
- Support for any combination of left/right rear controllers.
- Correct handling of appearance methods on its child controllers that you can rely on.
- Correct handling of rotations.
- Can be embedded as a child view controller of other controllers or deployed as the rootViewController.
- Plays nicely with any child view controllers or parent controllers.
- Can be deployed as a child of itself to create cascade-like, hierarchical interfaces.
- Seamless integration of pan gesture recognizer, behaving as smooth as silk.
- A category method on UIViewController,
revealViewController, to get the parentSWRevealViewControllerof any child controller, similar to the UIViewController's propertynavigationController. - Lightweight, clean, easy-to-read, self-documenting code that you will enjoy using in your projects.
- iOS 5.1 through iOS 7.0 or later.
- ARC memory management.
The SWRevealViewController repository attempts to provide an updated cocoaPods file and consistent tag versioning, but it is not actively updated on the cocoapods-specs repository.
The easiest way to install it is by copying the following to your project:
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SWRevealViewController.h
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SWRevealViewController.m
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Initialize an instance of a SWRevealViewController passing in a "rear" and a "front" view controllers.
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Optionaly add a "right" view controller or pass nil as the "rear" view controller.
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Use the SWRevealViewController instance in your code as you would use any view controller.
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Deploy as the application window rootViewController, or as a child of other containment controllers.
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Get the panGestureRecognized and tapGestureRecognizer provided by the SWRevealViewController. You can leave them as they are for the default behavior or you can add them to a suitable view on your "front" view controller. For example add the panGestureRecognizer to a navigationBar on the viewDidLoad method of your front controller.
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At any time, you can reveal, conceal the "rear" or "right" views or replace any of the view controllers, programmatically or based on user actions, with or without animations enabled
Initializing a SWRevealViewController:
- (id)initWithRearViewController:(UIViewController *)rearViewController frontViewController:(UIViewController *)frontViewController;
Setting a right view controller:
@property (strong, nonatomic) UIViewController *rightViewController;
Animated setting of the front view controller:
- (void)setFrontViewController:(UIViewController *)frontViewController animated:(BOOL)animated;
Animating the position of the front view controller. Position can be: FrontViewPositionLeftSideMostRemoved, FrontViewPositionLeftSideMost, FrontViewPositionLeftSide, FrontViewPositionLeft, FrontViewPositionRight, FrontViewPositionRightMost or FrontViewPositionRightMostRemoved
- (void)setFrontViewPosition:(FrontViewPosition)frontViewPosition animated:(BOOL)animated;
Creating and obtaining a pan gesture recognizer:
- (UIPanGestureRecognizer*)panGestureRecognizer;
Creating and obtaining a tap gesture recognizer:
- (UITapGestureRecognizer*)tapGestureRecognizer;
Other methods are documented in the SWRevealViewController.h header file.
As of November 15, 2013 Release Notes are updated on the class main header file. Please see SWRevealViewController.h
Some time ago the guys at AppCoda published an online tutorial featuring the SWRevealViewController: "How To Add a Slide-out Sidebar Menu in Your Apps" (thanks for that). You will find it at http://www.appcoda.com/ios-programming-sidebar-navigation-menu/ . Not updated to the last SWRevealViewController version but still worth a read.
Thanks to Jesper Vandborg for having contributed with a Xamarin Binding project for this controller that is available for download at https://github.com/Vandborg/SWRevealViewController-XamarinBinding.
A Special Thank you to Joan Martin who formely worked at http://www.sweetwilliamsl.com and has recently been developing an app for http://www.citizen.tv. He had the original idea and implemented code for generic view deployment/undeployment and replacement of view controllers used in the class.
Early code and api was inspired on a similar class by Philip Kluz (Philip.Kluz@zuui.org)
Copyright (c) 2013 Joan Lluch joan.lluch@sweetwilliamsl.com
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