presentViewController and displaying navigation bar

It is true that if you present a view controller modally on the iPhone, it will always be presented full screen no matter how you present it on the top view controller of a navigation controller or any other way around. But you can always show the navigation bar with the following workaround way:

Rather than presenting that view controller modally present a navigation controller modally with its root view controller set as the view controller you want:

MyViewController *myViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *navigationController = 
    [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:myViewController];

//now present this navigation controller modally 
[self presentViewController:navigationController
                   animated:YES
                   completion:^{

                        }];

You should see a navigation bar when your view is presented modally.

Swift 5.*

Navigation:

guard let myVC = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "MyViewController") else { return }
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: myVC)

self.navigationController?.present(navController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Going Back:

self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)

Swift 2.0

Navigation:

let myVC = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("MyViewController");
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: myVC!)

self.navigationController?.presentViewController(navController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Going Back:

self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)

Can you use:

[self.navigationController pushViewController:controller animated:YES];

Going back (I think):

[self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES];

I had the same problem on ios7. I called it in selector and it worked on both ios7 and ios8.

[self performSelector: @selector(showMainView) withObject: nil afterDelay: 0.0];

- (void) showMainView {
    HomeViewController * homeview = [
        [HomeViewController alloc] initWithNibName: @
        "HomeViewController"
        bundle: nil];
    UINavigationController * navcont = [
        [UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController: homeview];
    navcont.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    navcont.navigationBar.barTintColor = App_Theme_Color;
    [navcont.navigationBar
    setTitleTextAttributes: @ {
        NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]
    }];
    navcont.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
    navcont.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
    [self.navigationController presentViewController: navcont animated: YES completion: ^ {

    }];
}

All a [self.navigationController pushViewController:controller animated:YES]; does is animate a transition, and add it to the navigation controller stack, and some other cool navigation bar animation stuffs. If you don't care about the bar animation, then this code should work. The bar does appear on the new controller, and you get an interactive pop gesture!

//Make Controller
DetailViewController *controller = [[DetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil                                                                                 
                                    bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];  
//Customize presentation
controller.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical;
controller.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext;

//Present controller
[self presentViewController:controller 
                   animated:YES 
                 completion:nil];
//Add to navigation Controller
[self navigationController].viewControllers = [[self navigationController].viewControllers arrayByAddingObject:controller];
//You can't just [[self navigationController].viewControllers addObject:controller] because viewControllers are for some reason not a mutable array.

Edit: Sorry, presentViewController will fill the full screen. You will need to make a custom transition, with CGAffineTransform.translation or something, animate the controller with the transition, then add it to the navigationController's viewControllers.

Swift 3

        let vc0 : ViewController1 = ViewController1()
        let vc2: NavigationController1 = NavigationController1(rootViewController: vc0)
        self.present(vc2, animated: true, completion: nil)

Swift version : This presents a ViewController which is embedded in a Navigation Controller.

    override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)

    //  Identify the bundle by means of a class in that bundle.
    let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Storyboard", bundle: NSBundle(forClass: SettingsViewController.self))

    // Instance of ViewController that is in the storyboard.
    let settingViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("SettingsVC")

    let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: settingViewController)

    presentViewController(navController, animated: true, completion: nil)

}

I use this code. It's working fine in iOS 8.

MyProfileEditViewController *myprofileEdit=[self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"myprofileeditSid"];
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:myprofileEdit];
[self presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:^{}];

One solution

DetailViewController *controller = [[DetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:nil                                                                                 
                                        bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];  

UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:controller];
navController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical;
navController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext;



[self.navigationController presentViewController:navController 
                                        animated:YES 
                                        completion:nil];

If you didn't set the modalPresentationStyle property (like to UIModalPresentationFormSheet), the navigation bar will be displayed always. To ensure, always do

[[self.navigationController topViewController] presentViewController:vieController 
                                                            animated:YES 
                                                          completion:nil];

This will show the navigation bar always.

If you use NavigationController in Swift 2.x

let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
let targetViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("targetViewControllerID") as? TargetViewController
self.navigationController?.pushViewController(targetViewController!, animated: true)

try this

     let transition: CATransition = CATransition()
    let timeFunc : CAMediaTimingFunction = CAMediaTimingFunction(name: kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut)
    transition.duration = 1
    transition.timingFunction = timeFunc
    transition.type = kCATransitionPush
    transition.subtype = kCATransitionFromRight
    self.view.window!.layer.addAnimation(transition, forKey: kCATransition)
    self.presentViewController(vc, animated:true, completion:nil)