ViewDidAppear is not called when opening app from background

Question

I have a View Controller in which my value is 0 (label) and when I open that View Controller from another ViewController I have set viewDidAppear to set value 20 on label. It works fine but when I close my app and than again I open my app but the value doesn't change because viewDidLoad, viewDidAppear and viewWillAppear nothing get called. How can I call when I open my app. Do I have to do anything from applicationDidBecomeActive?

Answer 1

Curious about the exact sequence of events, I instrumented an app as follows: (@Zohaib, you can use the NSNotificationCenter code below to answer your question).

// AppDelegate.m

- (void)applicationWillEnterForeground:(UIApplication *)application
{
    NSLog(@"app will enter foreground");
}

- (void)applicationDidBecomeActive:(UIApplication *)application
{
    NSLog(@"app did become active");
}

// ViewController.m

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    NSLog(@"view did load");

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(appDidBecomeActive:) name:UIApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification object:nil];
    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(appWillEnterForeground:) name:UIApplicationWillEnterForegroundNotification object:nil];
}

- (void)appDidBecomeActive:(NSNotification *)notification {
    NSLog(@"did become active notification");
}

- (void)appWillEnterForeground:(NSNotification *)notification {
    NSLog(@"will enter foreground notification");
}

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    NSLog(@"view will appear");
}

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewDidAppear:animated];
    NSLog(@"view did appear");
}

At launch, the output looks like this:

2013-04-07 09:31:06.505 myapp[15459:11303] view did load
2013-04-07 09:31:06.507 myapp[15459:11303] view will appear
2013-04-07 09:31:06.511 myapp[15459:11303] app did become active
2013-04-07 09:31:06.512 myapp[15459:11303] did become active notification
2013-04-07 09:31:06.517 myapp[15459:11303] view did appear

Enter the background then reenter the foreground:

2013-04-07 09:32:05.923 myapp[15459:11303] app will enter foreground
2013-04-07 09:32:05.924 myapp[15459:11303] will enter foreground notification
2013-04-07 09:32:05.925 myapp[15459:11303] app did become active
2013-04-07 09:32:05.926 myapp[15459:11303] did become active notification