How to code a custom segue that "slides" between View Controllers?

Question

I built a app with storyboard, with an initial view controller, connected to many subsequent view controllers, connected sequentially, using cross dissolve segue. These work one swipes. All works fine. However, instead of being forced to use the basic segues, I want to have a custom segue that will slide the view controller content on and off the screen, much like the push for navigationControllers, but, being enabled to go left and right depending if one is going forward or backwards in the app.

I have set the segue to custom, and have created and saved a MySegue.h file. HOWEVER, I don't know how to code a custom segue that will slide one viewcontroller off the screen as the other slides on and back and forth as I move between view controllers.

Can anyone please provide me with come coding (it should be easy!) for a custom segue to move from one view controller to the next and back by sliding the screen on and off so I don't have to use the basic cross dissolve or standard flips offered in Xcode 4.2? I would be most grateful.

Answer 1

I was running into the same issue here, but I was using swipe gestures to go from one view controller to the next. Using the storyboard itself to set up segues was working fine, but when I needed a swipe to "go back" to the previous view controller, the animation went from right-to-left, instead of left-to-right. To fix that issue I did the following:

1. Embedded a Navigation Controller in the root view controller.
2. Used segues to push new view controllers.
3. When I wanted to "go back" to the previous view controller, I did not add a segue to the storyboard to push the previous view controller. Instead, I called the Navigation Controller's popViewControllerAnimated method whenever a back swipe occurred.