iOS Tutorial => Get the top most UIViewController

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A common approach to get the top most UIViewController is to get the RootViewController of your active UIWindow. I wrote an extension for this:

extension UIApplication {

func topViewController(_ base: UIViewController? = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController) -> UIViewController {
    
    if let nav = base as? UINavigationController {
        return topViewController(nav.visibleViewController)
    }
    
    if let tab = base as? UITabBarController {
        if let selected = tab.selectedViewController {
            return topViewController(selected)
        }
    }
    
    if let presented = base?.presentedViewController {
        return topViewController(presented)
    }
    
    return base!
}

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