UIViewController+BackButtonHandler

Get a native "back" button icon (chevron) in a presented view controller.

Install with Cocoapods:

pod 'UIViewController+BackButtonHandler',
      :git => '[email protected]:mango-chutney/UIViewController-BackButtonHandler.git',
      :branch => 'cocoapods'

If you're using Swift, you're also going to need a bridging header:

// BridgingHeader.h
#ifndef BridgingHeader_h
#define BridgingHeader_h

#import <UIViewController+BackButtonHandler/UIViewController+BackButtonHandler.h>

#endif /* BridgingHeader_h */

Then you can do something like this:

let myViewController = UIViewController()
let myNavigationViewController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: UIViewController())
climbNavigationViewController.pushViewController(myViewController, animated: true)
presentViewController(myNavigationViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)

And in myViewController, create a function navigationShouldPopOnBackButton() -> Bool:

func navigationShouldPopOnBackButton() -> Bool {
  self.navigationController?.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
  return false
}

If you also want to get rid of or overwrite the text for the back button, consider subclassing the view controller which will be passed as rootViewController:

//  PresentedViewControllerWrapper.swift

import UIKit

class PresentedViewControllerWrapper: UIViewController {
  override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // override back bar button text (what it would say under the back butto for the next view controller on the stack)
    self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "", style: .Plain, target: nil, action: nil)
  }
}