Push ViewController from Right To Left with UINavigationController

Question

Hi,

As everyone know the UINavigationController push a ViewController from Left To Right, is there a way to push the View from Right To Left? like the animation for the back button.
For now I have this:

[self.navigationController pushViewController:viewController animated:YES];

Answer 1

No, right to left is reserved for popping viewcontrollers from the navigation stack. You can however get such an effect by animating the views yourself. Something like:

[UIView beginAnimations:@"rightToLeft" context:NULL];
CGRect newFrame = aView.frame;
newFrame.origin.x -= newFrame.size.width;
aView.frame = newFrame;
[UIView commitAnimations];

This will however not do anything to your navigation controller.

Answer 2

You seem to want to "pop back". This can be achieved by three methods on your UINavigationController instance:

To come back to the "root" controller:

-(NSArray *)popToRootViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)animated

Or to come back to one of the previous controllers :

-(NSArray *)popToViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated

Or to come back to the previously pushed controller :

-(UIViewController *)popViewControllerAnimated:(BOOL)animated

Answer 3

You can create a NSMutableArray from the navigationController's array of viewcontrollers and insert new viewController before the current one. Then set the viewControllers array without animation and pop back.

UIViewController *newVC = ...;
NSMutableArray *vcs =  [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:self.navigationController.viewControllers];
[vcs insertObject:newVC atIndex:[vsc count]-1];
[self.navigationController setViewControllers:vcs animated:NO];
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];