iOS Startup/Splash Screen: Best Practice ?

[Fontano]

Here is the program flow that I want to do:

Application Starts:
-) A Startup Screen appears, that has a logo and a progress indicator.
This view/screen will then proceeded to check for user settings, check for network connection, and some other tasks.

-) If this is a first time load, it will then send the user to a setup screen
-) If is not, and there are no issues with the startup, it will send them to the main menu.

That is the program flow (up till the MainMenu).

What I have kinda working now is:
From the NavigationBar template, I have the splash screen (hidden nav bar).
It then does our startup and process steps in a seperate thread, so the progress indicator can spin.

It then pushes onto the NavController, the next appropriate viewcontroller.

Here is where I have the problem.
At this point, I don't want the "BACK" button, to take me back to the startup screen/viewcontroller.

I tried the POP options on the navigation controller, that doesn't work (at least it didn't for a quick test).

So is there a better way to do what I want? (Basically when it gets to the main menu, that the navigation path is cleared and the main menu is the root).

Thanks

 

[firewood]

Why are you pushing the start-up view if you never want to go back to it? There are (many) other ways of switching views.


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[Fontano]

Why are you pushing the start-up view if you never want to go back to it? There are (many) other ways of switching views.
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I'll admit, it is most probably because I don't have 100% understanding of how this all snaps together. I am getting a pretty good understanding of it, and progressing nicely.

But there are times that I do something in a way that works, that may not be the right. Hence this case.

I started with the base template, with the navigation control.
What ultimately I want though, is my navigation control not to really start until the MainMenu segment of the application.

So now that I look at it, with another comment in the knowledge base of my head (thank you for that).

I shouldn't be using the Navigation Controller in my first splash/setup screen, and then introduce the navigation controller when I get to the main menu (because from there on out, I will be using the navigation controller)

I guess I need to do some reading on how to go from a view on a window, to another View in a seperate NIB file, with the same right to left transition that I get from pushing the NIB file on the navigation controller.