Question

In my main UIViewController I am adding a homescreen view controller as subviews:

   UINavigationController *controller = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:vc];
        controller.navigationBarHidden = YES;
        controller.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, self.view.bounds.size.height);
        [self addChildViewController:controller];
        [self.view insertSubview:controller.view atIndex:0];
        [controller didMoveToParentViewController:self];    

The issue is that viewDidAppear and viewWillAppear is only called once, just like viewDidLoad. Why is this? How do I make this work?

Basically inside vc I am not getting viewDidAppear nor viewWillAppear.

I also just tried adding the UIViewController without the navigation controller and it still doesn’t work:

vc.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, self.view.bounds.size.height);
        [self addChildViewController:vc];
        [self.view insertSubview:vc.view atIndex:0];
        [vc didMoveToParentViewController:self];    

Answer 1

Presenting view controllers using presentModalViewController or segues or pushViewController should fix it.

Alternatively, if for some reason you want to present your views without the built-in methods, in your own code you should be calling these methods manually. Something like this:

[self addChildViewController:controller];
BOOL animated = NO;
[controller viewWillAppear:animated];
[self.view insertSubview:controller.view atIndex:0];
[controller viewDidAppear:animated];
[controller didMoveToParentViewController:self];