popToViewControllerAnimated does not animate since ios5

Question

as topic describes, calling popToRootViewControllerAnimated / popToViewControllerAnimated does not do any animation anymore.

the code I use, which works fine with 4.x, is simply

[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];

so nothing special here. I just noticed, that for all my apps, running on iOS5, pop-animations have been gone. push-animations however DO appear.

now i wonder what to search for, if there is the need to define the transition/style of that animation?

Any help welcome, thanks!

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 12 '11 at 18:34

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Okay, calling "[super viewWillAppear]" in "viewWillDisappear" is sort of ... my bad!

answered Nov 12 '11 at 18:34

thedanielhanke

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I am facing same problem... will you please elaborate your answer ? – Maulik Nov 14 '11 at 06:20
yes. i had a custom tabbar controller, based on the UITabbarController Apple provides. in viewWillDisappear i called [super viewWILLappear]; so changing this do its proper method helped out. do you also have a custom tabbar or something? – thedanielhanke Nov 14 '11 at 12:10
yes same thing.. custom tabbar by sub classing UITabbarController – Maulik Nov 14 '11 at 12:21
so I have to write [super viewWILLappear]; in viewWillDisappear ? – Maulik Nov 14 '11 at 12:23
nono calling will_APPEAR_ in _DISAPPEAR_ was the actual bug! give me more information about how you pop your view controller – thedanielhanke Nov 14 '11 at 12:53
by [self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES]; – Maulik Nov 14 '11 at 12:55
with "more" i was thinking of "more" :) – thedanielhanke Nov 14 '11 at 13:40
I have 4 tabs. Each having more then one VC inside. When I push VC it makes animation properly but not when I pop VC !!! – Maulik Nov 16 '11 at 04:51

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '11 at 07:24

Was having the same problem. view transition animation for poptoRootViewControllerAnimated was working fine pre ios5.0 but not in ios5. Below is a brief description to fix it.

I had implemented a custom Tab bar in view A. When I transitioned to view B from A and then back, the view transition animation stopped working for B to A. Upon looking at the view loading methods in view A and all its sub-views, my customTabBar in view A had ViewDidAppear that was erroneously calling [super viewWillAppear] inside it. When I corrected it to [super viewDidAppear] , the pop animation started happening OK.

Looks like pre iOS 5, it did not matter but now it does and rightfully so.

popToViewControllerAnimated does not animate since ios5

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