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Just create an instance of your view controller on App Delegate (you can instantiate it on your view controller view did load) and instead of using a storyboard id to call the view just call the shared instance of the App Delegate. Something like this (in Swift):

        var app = UIApplication.sharedApplication()

        if let delegate = app.delegate as? AppDelegate{

            if let mainController = delegate.mainViewController{

                destViewController =  delegate.mainViewController!
            }
            else{
                destViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("MainView") as UIViewController

            }
        }

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@WizMeister did you have any luck with this ?
As douglasd3 mentioned, how to create and instance the view controller in App Delegate ?
And, where does the above code go ?
Sorry I am a noob. Still trying to understand how things work.
Thanks in advance !

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You can create a singleton instance of your view controller or store your view controller in a property in the menu TVC.

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The code goes on the table view controller of the menu, in the tableViewControllerDidSelectRow method, take a look at the example code and you will know what i'm talking about :)

To create the instance of your mainviewController in your app delegate:
In your App Delegate just add:

   //Your main view controller
   var mainViewController: UIViewController?

In your main view controller's viewDidLoad just do something like this:

   var app = UIApplication.sharedApplication()

    if let delegate = app.delegate as? AppDelegate{

        delegate.mainViewController = self
    }

You can also create a singleton like evnaz said.

Hope it helped :)

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I just did it. Thanks everyone for your help! I am giving the exact guide, as the code should be written:

On your App Delegate, create an optional property for each of your view Controllers
e.g.

var firstViewController: UIViewController?

on your View Controllers ViewDidLoad method, add:

var app = UIApplication.sharedApplication()
if let delegate = app.delegate as? AppDelegate{
delegate.firstViewController = self
}

then, on the menu's tableviewcontroller, right before switch indexPath.row add:
var app = UIApplication.sharedApplication()

and then on each indexPath.row case do as such:

if let delegate = app.delegate as? AppDelegate {

            if let mainController = delegate.firstViewController {

                destViewController =  delegate.firstViewController!
            }
            else{
                destViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("firstViewController") as UIViewController

            }
        } else {

        destViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("firstViewController") as UIViewController
        }
        break

Be aware, that, If you have different navigation bar colors and tint colors for each view controller, you must set them in ViewWillAppear or else the colors will remain the same as the first view controller.

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Hello everyone.

Thanks a lot for your help. I could follow @WizMeister code perfectly!
Though it gives an error after the same view is called back from the menu :(

Here is the error -
Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'Pushing the same view controller instance more than once is not supported (<Test.FirstLocationViewController: 0x7bf21ae0>)

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You have probably done something wrong... Did you miss any bracket? Or did you double type the pushviewcontroller on your menu's tableViewController file?

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Hi @WizMeister,

One thing I can think of is that my optional property name and the view controller class name is the same.
var firstViewController: UIViewController?
and firstViewController is also the class of my view controller (of type UIViewController).

Could this be a problem ? Would it create clashes ?
I will try to change names when I get home from work and double check if I have made any duplicate calls.

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No in my example all my ViewControllers are of class UIViewController, this is normal as you are subclassing UIViewController. It should work.

Kind of weird though, try making a new clean project, download the control again, to start fresh and see if there is something wrong with your current project by comparing.

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