Question

I’m wondering how can I initialize a UINavigationController in order to display the third view controller in the stack ? Kinda like the Mail app. Even if you kill the app, when you launch it, you see the view controller containing all your mails and there the “back” button allowing you to the list of your mailboxes.

Thanks for your answers.

Answer 1

You may want to look into the UINavigationController‘s setViewControllers:animated: method :

Parameters

viewControllers

The view controllers to place in the stack. The front-to-back order of the controllers in this array represents the new
bottom-to-top order of the controllers in the navigation stack. Thus,
the last item added to the array becomes the top item of the
navigation stack.

animated

If YES, animate the pushing or popping of the top view controller. If NO, replace the view controllers without any animations.

Discussion

You can use this method to update or replace the current view
controller stack without pushing or popping each controller
explicitly. In addition, this method lets you update the set of
controllers without animating the changes, which might be appropriate
at launch time when you want to return the navigation controller to a
previous state.

If animations are enabled, this method decides which type of
transition to perform based on whether the last item in the items
array is already in the navigation stack. If the view controller is
currently in the stack, but is not the topmost item, this method uses
a pop transition; if it is the topmost item, no transition is
performed. If the view controller is not on the stack, this method
uses a push transition. Only one transition is performed, but when
that transition finishes, the entire contents of the stack are
replaced with the new view controllers. For example, if controllers A,
B, and C are on the stack and you set controllers D, A, and B, this
method uses a pop transition and the resulting stack contains the
controllers D, A, and B.

Availability

Available in iOS 3.0 and later.

UINavigationController Class Reference