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Official sample code, working sample code

Presentation basics

• presented view controller: the view controller we're showing
• presenting view controller the view controller that is presenting the presented view controller
• content: in UIPresentationController terms, this the presented content, it's the foreground stuff the user is meant to interact with
• chrome: in UIPresentationController terms, this is the background content (behind the content) that is usually dimmed

UIPresentationController manages the view controllers presentation in your app. All UI view controller presentations in iOS 8 are backed by UIPresentationController.

Since UIPresentationController owns/can provide chrome, it can also provide its own animations for that chrome and can also animate its chrome alongside your existing animator objects' custom animations.

Division of responsibilities

Before iOS 8, your animator object was responsible to:

• animate the controller content
• positioning the content
• manage the chrome

From iOS 8, the content positioning and chrome management are UIPresentationController's responsibility.

UIPresentationController also drives adaptation in your application, as it knows about the presentation traits.

UIKit presentations

Let's say that we want to make a custom transition like the following:

In iOS 7, UIKit introduced the transitioningDelegate (UIViewControllerTransitioning) that was responsible to provide an object animator for the custom presentation animation. From iOS 8 transitioningDelegate, also provides the presentation controller via a new method:

- (UIPresentationController *)presentationControllerForPresentedViewController:(UIViewController *)presented 
                                                      presentingViewController:(UIViewController *)presenting 
                                                          sourceViewController:(UIViewController *)source;

How to:

1. In both the presenting and presented view controller we will set a custom transitionDelegate

transitionDelegate = [[OverlayTransitioningDelegate alloc] init];
[overlayViewController setTransitioningDelegate:transitionDelegate];

2. In the presented view controller we will set the modal presentation to .custom. This indicates to UIKit that we should consult your transitioning delegate for a custom Presentation Controller to use for the presentation:

[self setModalPresentationStyle:UIModalPresentationCustom];

3. In our transition delegate, we need to provide that UIPresentationController:

- (UIPresentationController *)presentationControllerForPresentedViewController:(UIViewController *)presented 
                                                      presentingViewController:(UIViewController *)presenting
                                                          sourceViewController:(UIViewController *)source
{
  return ...
}

4. In our custom UIPresentationController, we need to add the animations for the dimming view.

First in the presentationTransitionWillBegin:

- (void)presentationTransitionWillBegin
{
  UIView* containerView = [self containerView];
  UIViewController* presentedViewController = [self presentedViewController];
  // we make our dimming view full screen
  [dimmingView setFrame:[containerView bounds]];
  // we make our dimming view fully transparent
  [dimmingView setAlpha:0.0];

  // we add our dimming view above all the other content in the presentation
  [containerView insertSubview:dimmingView atIndex:0];
  
  // we add the dimming view fade-in along with the rest of the coordinator animations
  [[presentedViewController transitionCoordinator] animateAlongsideTransition:^(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext>context) {
    [dimmingView setAlpha:1.0];
  } completion:nil];
}

Then in dismissalTransitionWillBegin:

- (void)dismissalTransitionWillBegin
{
  // here we just fade-out the dimming view
  [[[self presentedViewController] transitionCoordinator] animateAlongsideTransition:^(id<UIViewControllerTransitionCoordinatorContext>context) {
      [dimmingView setAlpha:0.0];
  } completion:nil];
}

5. In our transition delegate we need to provide our custom animator object for both presenting and dismissing our view:

- (id <UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning>)animationControllerForPresentedController:(UIViewController *)presented
                                                                   presentingController:(UIViewController *)presenting
                                                                      sourceController:(UIViewController *)source
{
  OverlayAnimatedTransitioning *animationController = [[OverlayAnimatedTransitioning alloc] init];
  return animationController;
}

- (id <UIViewControllerAnimatedTransitioning>)animationControllerForDismissedController:(UIViewController *)dismissed
{
  OverlayAnimatedTransitioning *animationController = [[OverlayAnimatedTransitioning alloc] init];
  return animationController;
}

6. The sidebar width in the animation above is about a third of the presenting view controller, in order to achieve this, we need to implement various UIPresentationController methods:

// Note that this is one of the methods coming from UIContentContainer. 
// This method is also here because the presenting view controller is not a container for the Presentation Controller. 
// The size that gets passed to the presentation view controller is the same size that is passed to the presenting view controller.
// The Presentation Controller is the container for the presented controller, hence it decides what is the size for the 
// presented view controller.
- (CGSize)sizeForChildContentContainer:(id <UIContentContainer>)container withParentContainerSize:(CGSize)parentSize {
  return CGSizeMake(floorf(parentSize.width / 3.0), parentSize.height);
}

// This is where we return to the view controller transitioning system what frame we'd like the presented view to have.
- (CGRect)frameOfPresentedViewInContainerView {
  CGRect presentedViewFrame = CGRectZero;
  CGRect containerBounds = [[self containerView] bounds];
  presentedViewFrame.size = [self sizeForChildContentContainer: (UIView<UIContentContainer> *)[self presentedView]
  withParentContainerSize:containerBounds.size];
  presentedViewFrame.origin.x = containerBounds.size.width - presentedViewFrame.size.width;
  return presentedViewFrame;
}

7. To add rotation support, all we need to do is implement in our presentation controller the containerViewWillLayoutSubviews method:

- (void)containerViewWillLayoutSubviews
{
  [dimmingView setFrame:[[self containerView] bounds]];
  [[self presentedView] setFrame:[self frameOfPresentedViewInContainerView]];
}