I have 2 view controllers in my project. Inside View Controller1 I want to switch to View Controller 2 by press of a button. Currently I do this
- (IBAction)startController2:(id)sender {
viewController1 vc2 = [[viewController2 alloc] init];
self.view = vc2.view;
}
This seems to work fine, but there is a big delay (4 secs) between the button press and second view controller appears. If I call the viewController2 directly from the AppDelegate things load faster. What am I doing wrong here. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Several things to consider.
You definitely didn't mean to do self.view = vc2.view
. You just put one view controller in charge of another view controller's view. What you probably mean to say was [self.view addSubview:vc2.view]
. This alone might fix your problem, BUT...
Don't actually use that solution. Even though it's almost directly from the samples in some popular iPhone programming books, it's a bad idea. Read "Abusing UIViewControllers" to understand why.
It's all in the chapter "Presenting View Controllers from Other View Controllers".
It'll come down to either:
a UINavigationController, (see the excellent Apple guide to them here) and then you simply [navigationController pushViewController:vc2]
a "manually managed" stack of modal view controllers, as andoabhay suggests
explicitly adding a VC as child of another, as jason suggests