Hiding a Master View Controller when Selection is Made with Xcode 4.3.2 Storyboards

Question

I want to hide the master view controller when a cell is selected only when the iPad is in portrait view. So the user will click the cell and then the master view controller will go away (like in Mail). Where and how would I do this?

This project is open source: https://github.com/kirkouimet/enzyme

Answer 1

Once you configure your detail view controller, you need to dismiss the popover controller.

if (self.popoverController) {
    [self.popoverController dismissPopoverAnimated:YES];
}

If your detail view controller doesn't already have a property to hold the UIPopoverController, you can capture it by implementing these delegate methods for UISplitViewControllerDelegate

- (void)splitViewController:(UISplitViewController *)iSplitViewController
     willHideViewController:(UIViewController *)iViewController
          withBarButtonItem:(UIBarButtonItem *)iBarButtonItem
       forPopoverController:(UIPopoverController *)iPopoverController {

    self.popoverController = iPopoverController;
}


- (void)splitViewController:(UISplitViewController *)iSplitViewController
     willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)iViewController
  invalidatingBarButtonItem:(UIBarButtonItem *)iBarButtonItem {

    self.popoverController = nil;
}