UIPageViewController in iOS6

Question

In iOS6 in the methods viewControllerAfterViewController and viewControllerBeforeViewController if I return nil (for block the page navigation when I am in the first or last page) the app crash with this exception:

'The number of view controllers provided (0) doesn't match the number required (1) for the requested transition'

In iOS5 all works good.

Answer 1

I had the same issue. I found that the cause was replacing the delegate on the UIPanGestureRecognizer of the UIPageViewController, a no-no really. The pan gesture recognizer was calling an undocumented method _gestureRecognizerShouldBegin: (note the leading underscore) that UIPageViewController implements and apparently relies upon to work properly (read: not-crash). I ended up implementing respondsToSelector: and forwardingTargetForSelector: in my class that uses the UIPageViewController to pass the undocumented delegate method on to the UIPageViewController without specifically naming it (and almost certainly earning me an app store review rejection).

-(BOOL)respondsToSelector:(SEL)aSelector {
    if ([super respondsToSelector:aSelector])
        return YES;
    else if ([self.pageViewController respondsToSelector:aSelector])
        return YES;
    else
        return NO;
}

- (id)forwardingTargetForSelector:(SEL)aSelector {
    if ([super respondsToSelector:aSelector]) {
        return nil;
    } else if ([self.pageViewController respondsToSelector:aSelector]) {
        return self.pageViewController;
    }
    return nil;
}

My longer term solution will be to rework the use of UIPageViewController such that I don't need to displace the gesture recognizer delegates.