Create a UINavigationController With a Gradient as a Background

Not as difficult as it sounds!

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Prerequisites:

• You will be expected to be aware how to make a Single View Application in Swift

Terminology:

UINavigationController: A container for view controllers that defines a method for navigating content based around a stack

The process

Setting up the UINavigationController subclasses

Where UINavigationController subclasses have been used is it required to create the subclass — for example GradientNavigationController is created through

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then creating a UINavigationController

Which then, while using the Storyboard the subclass is chosen as in the following image