How to navigate programmatically to another viewcontroller with "over current context " presentation in ios 9, objective C

Question

I'm building my app using storyboard.so I can open another view controller when button preesed,by dragging.and then I can select presentation= over current context for the segue in storyboard.But what I want is to do this programmatically.I found an answer,but it says it will work for only ipads.I'm building an universal app, so I want to work it for all devices.

• Is this possible.
• And how can I do that.

in my first view controller

UIStoryboard *story = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"Main" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
UIViewController *middleViewController = [story instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"FlightMiddleViewController"];

and in my second view controller, viewDidLoad method I put

self.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationOverCurrentContext;

it works for a while.that means it transparent for while and then screen black.I don't know why is that.

Answer 1

it is working for iphone also with ios 9 >=

this is what you want to do.

in your first view controller, before you set up which view should present,

- (IBAction)searchNowAction:(id)sender {

    UIStoryboard *story = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"Main" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];
    UIViewController *secondViewController = [story instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"secondviewControllerSBname"];


    secondViewController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationOverFullScreen;
    secondViewController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
    [self presentViewController:secondViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

}

this works fine for iphones also.

Answer 2

You need to set following property before presenting.

self.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationStyle.OverCurrentContext

Also set definesPresentationContext property of parent controller to true

Yes it will work only for iPad, as modal presentations and popover controllers are only supported in iPad.