Create Simple, Custom UINavigationController Transitions

How to easily implement custom transitions when you navigate between view controllers

Recently, I started working on a new personal project where I had a static background for the entire application and all my view controllers’ views had a transparent background.

Default transition animation overlaps the source and destination views a little bit, therefore, there is only one way to make our application navigate with some dignity and smoothness — that’s right — it is custom animated transitions.

And since we usually want to keep the swipe-back gesture on view controllers, we also have to create custom interactive transitioning.

Sample Project

I have created a sample project — you can find it on GitHub.

Let’s Get Theoretical

The first thing we have to do is implement a custom transition for our UINavigationController and implement its delegate method.