Swift get parent view controller

The root view controller is simply the view controller that sits at the bottom of the navigation stack. You can access the navigation controller’s array of view controllers through its viewControllers property . To access the root view controller, we ask for the first item of the array of view controllers.

Navigate From AppDelegate.

There is no built-in way to do it. While you can get around it by adding a IBOutlet on the UIView and connecting these in Interface Builder, this is not recommended. The view should not know about the view controller. Instead, you should do as @Phil M suggests and create a protocol to be used as the delegate.

In addition, you can check for UINavigationController and ask for its topViewController or even check for UITabBarController and ask for selectedViewController . This will get you the view controller that is currently visible to the user.

To present ViewController which works with XIB file you can use the following example: