ViewDeck

What is ViewDeck?

ViewDeck is a framework to manage side menus of all kinds. It supports left and right menus and manages the presentation of the side menus both programmatically and through user gestures.

The heart of ViewDeck is IIViewDeckController, which is a container view controller. You can then assign your center view controller to it as well as side view controllers. IIViewDeckController makes sure your content view controllers are added to the view controller hierarchy their views are added to the view hierarchy when needed.

ViewDeck does not provide any kind of configurable menus. It is up to you to assign your center and side view controllers to ViewDeck so that ViewDeck can then take over and present them as necessary.

IIViewDeckController supports both a left and a right side view controller and of course you can also only use one side. You can open and close the side views programmatically, e.g. through a tap of a button. By default IIViewDeckController also listens to swipe gestures by the user and interactively opens the side views accordingly.

Of course ViewDeck plays nice with existing container view controllers such as UINavigationController or UITabBarController.

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