Replace Window rootViewController with another view controller using Storyboard

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I am new to Storyboard-ing, been using IB mostly. I have an initial temporary View Controller (let's call it BootstrapViewController) which job is solely to load data from a webservice, then hand over control to a UITabViewController. The data is required to determine what tab items to show.

In non-Storyboard world, I just do:

// Do whatever you need to UITabViewController, then call this
[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.rootViewController = myTabVC;

Is this possible using Storyboard? I tried creating a named segue from BootstrapViewController to the tab view controller, then calling performSegueWithIdentifier, no luck.

Maybe I am approaching this wrong? Should I take BootstrapViewController out of the Storyboard, load it first, then manually load the MainStoryBoard? — pixelfreak
– pixelfreak, Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 23:02
Or put UINavigationController -> BootstrapViewController -> UITabViewController. Then call performSegueWithIdentifier — pixelfreak
– pixelfreak, Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 23:43

jsd · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-26 23:48:49Z

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You can do it exactly the same way you have always done it, by setting the window's rootViewController property. You can even load the tab bar out of a storyboard. Use UIStoryboard's instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier: to load a particular view controller from a storyboard.

answered Mar 26, 2012 at 23:48

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