How to enable back/left swipe gesture in UINavigationController after setting leftBarButtonItem?

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Itachi picture Itachi · Jan 22, 2016 · Viewed 99.9k times · Source

I got the opposite issue from here. By default in iOS7, back swipe gesture of UINavigationController's stack could pop the presented ViewController. Now I just uniformed all the self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem style for all the ViewControllers.

Here is the code:

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:LOADIMAGE(@"back_button") style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(popCurrentViewController)];

after that, the navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer is disabled. How could I make the pop gesture enabled without removing the custom leftBarButtonItem?

Thanks!

Answer

Lumialxk picture Lumialxk · Jan 22, 2016

First set delegate in viewDidLoad:

self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.delegate = self;

And then disable gesture when pushing:

- (void)pushViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated {
    [super pushViewController:viewController animated:animated];
    self.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = NO;
}

And enable in viewDidDisappear:

self.navigationController.interactivePopGestureRecognizer.enabled = YES;

Also, add UINavigationControllerDelegate to your view controller.

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