Refresh UIPageViewController - reorder pages and add new pages

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ssloan picture ssloan · Mar 10, 2013 · Viewed 27.2k times · Source

I have a UIPageViewController which I am providing page data for using an implementation of UIPageControllerDelegate and UIPageControllerDataSource.

It's all working fine, but I want to be able to add items to the page data and reorder the page data.

If a user has already got to the last of the pages, and then I add an item, they can't get to the next page because viewControllerAfterViewController: has already been called. If they scroll back one and then forward two they can get to the new page fine, so the data is setup correctly. How can I tell the UIPageViewController to refresh its store of what comes next?

Similarly I would like to reorder the collection that is backing the page view. But if I do this I'll get the same problem - the page view will think the next page is still what it was last time the current page was loaded.

I guess I'm looking for something similar to reloadData: on UITableView.

Answer

Ortwin Gentz picture Ortwin Gentz · Feb 7, 2014

I found a workaround to force UIPageViewController to forget about cached view controllers of neighboring pages that are currently not displayed:

pageViewController.dataSource = nil;
pageViewController.dataSource = self;

I do this everytime I change the set of pages. Of course this doesn't affect the currently displayed page.

With this workaround I avoid the caching bug and can still use animated:YES in setViewControllers:direction:animated:completion:.

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