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Refresh UIPageViewController - reorder pages and add new pages


I have a UIPageViewController which I am providing page data for using an implementation of UIPageControllerDelegate and UIPageControllerDataSource.

It's all working fine, but I want to be able to add items to the page data and reorder the page data.

If a user has already got to the last of the pages, and then I add an item, they can't get to the next page because viewControllerAfterViewController: has already been called. If they scroll back one and then forward two they can get to the new page fine, so the data is setup correctly. How can I tell the UIPageViewController to refresh its store of what comes next?

Similarly I would like to reorder the collection that is backing the page view. But if I do this I'll get the same problem - the page view will think the next page is still what it was last time the current page was loaded.

I guess I'm looking for something similar to reloadData: on UITableView.


Solution

  • You need to call setViewControllers:direction:animated:completion:.

    Also, in iOS 6, watch out if you're using UIPageViewControllerTransitionStyleScroll style, as there is a major caching bug if animated: is YES (see my discussion here: UIPageViewController navigates to wrong page with Scroll transition style).