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Accepting a third-party menu in the iOS app. Review of controller structure

I am developing an application designed to create the following navigation structure. I need to have a welcome view with the "Register" and "Login" buttons, since most applications have:

iPhone_welcome

The navigation bar does not appear in this view, as it seems to be a common thing. If "Login" is listened, then the login view will be presented modally:

iPhone_signIn

And if "Register" is clicked, the welcome view goes to a form requesting user input to create an account:

iPhone_signUp

Then, as soon as the user logs in and logs into the application, I would like to have side menus similar to Facebook, YouTube or Spotify:

iPhone_facebook

Being the central panel of a UINavigationController . The left sidebar, I think, is usually a "UIViewController" ...

The thing is, I don’t know what the rootViewController my application should be, and what hierarchy of view controllers I should have. I thought of several possibilities:

1) From the rootViewController an UINavigationController , click on the welcome view, hiding the navigation bar (is this possible?), rootViewController “Login” view if necessary or by clicking “Register”. After the user has logged in, place these views from the rootViewController , that is, the UINavigationController , and then click on such a navigation controller the user view controller that controls the side menu file.

2) Being the rootViewController user side rootViewController controller and setting its central UINavigationController panel. Click on the welcome view, etc., Without setting any view controller for the left / right panels, and then, when the user is logged in, cover these views from the UINavigationController central panel, click on the corresponding view and now set the panels on the left / right

Hope I explained it myself. Perhaps there is a different and better approach to solving this scenario. Has anyone implemented such an application? I need help in this matter, and I would also be grateful if you would be recommended a special library / control that provides material from the side menu from the one who used it, and it is easy to use and configure. I know that there are many of them ( MMDrawerController , JASidePanels , for example), but I would like to get some opinions from the people who developed the application with one of them.

Note. I also need to support an iPad, and iOS 5+

Thank you so much

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I would recommend that you have two main ViewControllers: one for login / registration and one for main content with a side menu. After the user logs in, just change the rootViewController window to a second one.

For the side menu you can use:

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I developed an application using ECSlidingViewController (created by Michael Enriquez) that works great for me and is easy to use.

A tutorial is also available on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJJMyzdB9uI

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As for Swift, you can use the InteractiveSideMenu library as a side menu. This is pretty easy to implement, and the animation transition looks pretty smooth. It was a good find for my project.

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