PageViewController delegate functions called twice

Question

I am working with UIPageViewController , to make a product tour for my application.

I followed this link http://www.appcoda.com/uipageviewcontroller-tutorial-intro/

I am doing is simple task of changing backgound color of my "root VC" on swipe, based on the index value I get, but as the delegate functions are called twice, my index value is not correct and because of that, I am not able to get it right, below is my code

#import "APPViewController.h"
#import "APPChildViewController.h"

@interface APPViewController ()

@end

@implementation APPViewController

- (void)viewDidLoad {

    [super viewDidLoad];

    self.pageController = [[UIPageViewController alloc] initWithTransitionStyle:UIPageViewControllerTransitionStyleScroll navigationOrientation:UIPageViewControllerNavigationOrientationHorizontal options:nil];

    self.pageController.dataSource = self;
    [[self.pageController view] setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 500)];

    APPChildViewController *initialViewController = [self viewControllerAtIndex:0];

    NSArray *viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObject:initialViewController];

    [self.pageController setViewControllers:viewControllers direction:UIPageViewControllerNavigationDirectionForward animated:NO completion:nil];

    [self addChildViewController:self.pageController];
    [[self view] addSubview:[self.pageController view]];
    [self.pageController didMoveToParentViewController:self];

}

- (void)didReceiveMemoryWarning {

    [super didReceiveMemoryWarning];
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.

}

- (APPChildViewController *)viewControllerAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index {

    APPChildViewController *childViewController = [[APPChildViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"APPChildViewController" bundle:nil];
    childViewController.index = index;
    childViewController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

    if(index == 0)
    {
          self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
     }

    if(index == 1)
    {
          self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
     }

    if(index == 2)
    {
          self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
     }


    return childViewController;

}

- (UIViewController *)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController viewControllerBeforeViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController {

    NSUInteger index = [(APPChildViewController *)viewController index];

    if (index == 0) {
        return nil;
    }

    // Decrease the index by 1 to return
    index--;

   return [self viewControllerAtIndex:index];

}

- (UIViewController *)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController viewControllerAfterViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController {

    NSUInteger index = [(APPChildViewController *)viewController index];

    index++;

    if (index == 3) {
        return nil;
    }

   return [self viewControllerAtIndex:index];

}

- (NSInteger)presentationCountForPageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController {
    // The number of items reflected in the page indicator.
    return 3;
}

- (NSInteger)presentationIndexForPageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController {
    // The selected item reflected in the page indicator.
    return 0;
}

Please help me out, I am not getting where I am going wrong

Regards Ranjit

Answer 1

After looking for a lot.

I receive that:

- (UIViewController *)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController viewControllerBeforeViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController;
- (UIViewController *)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController viewControllerAfterViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController;

2 functions use to get pageViewController behind or in front of current pageViewController.

I thinks it's difficult to get current pageViewController

My suggestion:

In UIPageViewControllerDelegate, it have a function :

 - (void)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController willTransitionToViewControllers:(NSArray *)pendingViewControllers;

This function to give you a pendingViewControllers array and this's current pageViewController array. So you can implement like that :

- (void)pageViewController:(UIPageViewController *)pageViewController willTransitionToViewControllers:(NSArray *)pendingViewControllers
{


if([pendingViewControllers count]>0)
  {
     NSUInteger index =[(APPChildViewController*)[pendingViewControllers objectAtIndex:0] index];

    if(index == 0)
    {
        self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
    }

    if(index == 1)
    {
        self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
    }

    if(index == 2)
    {
        self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
    }


  }
}

In viewDidLoad, you add :

    self.pageController.delegate = self;

    self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor]; //set first background.

In 'APPViewController.h' you sure add:

@interface APPViewController : UIViewController<UIPageViewControllerDataSource,UIPageViewControllerDelegate>

Remember : remove this code (in 'viewControllerAtIndex' function)

if(index == 1)
{
    self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor];
}

if(index == 2)
{
    self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];
}

if(index == 3)
{
    self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
}

Let's me know if you have any questions.