I had a UIStoryboard with 10 or more UIViewControllers and additional ContainerViews. After layouting the views and customizing more and more, the UIStoryboard got more and more lazy.
My approach was to setup the views inside single UIStoryboards. Loading the controllers is done inside my Menu, where I setup an NSArray with all identifiers for the UIViewController which also have to be setup inside the UIStoryboard:
When loading the menu, I loop through the NSArray and load the UIViewControllers by identifiers from the specific UIStoryboard. This is the place where I needed to implement a switch, for the different UIStoryboards:
self.arrayVCAll = [NSMutableArray new];
for ( NSArray *array in _arrayViewControllerAll ){
NSMutableArray *arrayTemp = [NSMutableArray new];
for (UIViewController *vc in array ){
NSString *strViewController = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", vc];
UIStoryboard *storyboard;
if( [strViewController isEqualToString:@"CustomOneStoryboard"] ){
storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"FirstVC" bundle:nil];
} else if( [strViewController isEqualToString:@"CustomTwoStoryboard"] ){
storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"SecondVC" bundle:nil];
} else {
storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"Main" bundle:nil];
}
UIViewController *controller = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:strViewController];
MyNavController *nav = [[MyNavController alloc] initWithRootViewController:controller];
[arrayTemp addObject:nav];
}
[self.arrayVCAll addObject:arrayTemp];
}
In my case, there was just a problem with the segues after separating the initial UINavigationController from my UIViewControllers. The segues won't push to a navigationController, if there is no initial UINavigationController. Thats why I added a UINavigationController on each UIViewController (of my NSArray) so the UIStoryboardSegue will be done correctly. The UINavigationController also doesn't need to be connected to a class, just include it inside the UIStoryboard and connect it to the first UIViewController.
