I wrote and app in swift which it has a view controller which I change some settings in it, for example : all view controllers labels and titles will change. but my problem is when I change the app settings which I store them in core data and I use navigation bar button to get back to the parent view controller when I fetch from core data I get nothing still the same data! but settings view controller when I go to it again it loads the right data! And if I close the app and reopen it, the app loads the correct data! So my question is how can I reload or relaunch the first view controller or entire app programmatically ?
for better understanding of my question below is my parent view controller which contains navigation bar.
Code :
import UIKit
import AVKit
import AVFoundation
import CoreData
class playVideo: UIViewController {
//data source
var languageDB = [NSManagedObject]()
let managedContext = AppDelegate().managedObjectContext
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true
change_language()
}
override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
self.view.setNeedsDisplay()
}
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
change_language()
}
func change_language(){
Insert("فارسی")//insert default language
fetch("Language")
let Language = languageDB[0]
let row_value : String = Language.valueForKey("lang") as! String
if(row_value == "فارسی"){
self.navigationItem.title = "پخش زنده تصاویر از حرم مطهر رضوی"
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.title = "صفحه اصلی"
}else if(row_value == "English"){
self.navigationItem.title = "Live broadcast from razavi holy shrine"
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.title = "Main Page"
}else if(row_value == "العربية"){
self.navigationItem.title = "لايف صور من مقام رضوي"
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.title = "صفحةابتدائي"
}
}
//Insert Function
func Insert(lang : String) {
let check_empty = entityIsEmpty("Language")
if(check_empty != true){
let saveLanguage = NSEntityDescription.insertNewObjectForEntityForName("Language", inManagedObjectContext: managedContext)
// add our data
saveLanguage.setValue(lang, forKey: "lang")
//2
do {
try managedContext.save()
//3
languageDB.append(saveLanguage)
} catch let error as NSError {
print("Could not save \(error), \(error.userInfo)")
}
}//end of check empty if
}
//fetch Functions
func fetch(entity: String){
let langfetch = NSFetchRequest(entityName: entity)
do{
let results = try managedContext.executeFetchRequest(langfetch)
languageDB = results as! [NSManagedObject]
}catch{
fatalError("bad things happend \(error)")
}
}
//check entity is empty Function
func entityIsEmpty(entity: String) -> Bool
{
let request = NSFetchRequest(entityName: entity)
do{
let results = try managedContext.executeFetchRequest(request)
languageDB = results as! [NSManagedObject]
}catch{
fatalError("Cant handel entity \(error)")
}
if languageDB.count != 0
{
return true
}
else
{
return false
}
}
func Refresh() {
// Do some reloading of data and update the table view's data source
// Fetch more objects from a web service, for example...
self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
self.navigationController!.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
navigationController!.popViewControllerAnimated(true)
self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true
change_language()
}
}
Try renew your app view controller instead or reload or relaunching the app
func reNew(){
//reload application data (renew root view )
UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.rootViewController = storyboard!.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("Root_View")
}
Root_View is the view controller which you want it to renew, you can set identifier for your view controllers in identity inspector.