MFMailComposeViewController in Swift does not dismiss

Question

This is sample code:

import UIKit
import MessageUI

class ViewController: UIViewController, MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate {

@IBAction func showEmail(sender : AnyObject) {
    var emailTitle = "Test Email"
    var messageBody = "This is a test email body"
    var toRecipents = ["[email protected]"]
    var mc: MFMailComposeViewController = MFMailComposeViewController()
    mc.mailComposeDelegate = self
    mc.setSubject(emailTitle)
    mc.setMessageBody(messageBody, isHTML: false)
    mc.setToRecipients(toRecipents)

    self.presentViewController(mc, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}

func mailComposeController(controller:MFMailComposeViewController, didFinishWithResult result:MFMailComposeResult, error:NSError) {
    switch result.value {
    case MFMailComposeResultCancelled.value:
        NSLog("Mail cancelled")
    case MFMailComposeResultSaved.value:
        NSLog("Mail saved")
    case MFMailComposeResultSent.value:
        NSLog("Mail sent")
    case MFMailComposeResultFailed.value:
        NSLog("Mail sent failure: %@", [error.localizedDescription])
    default:
        break
    }
    self.dismissModalViewControllerAnimated(true)
    // self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
}

}

When I push the button, the function showEmail is executed and appears the form for send email. If I click "Send", then everything works fine - mail is sent, then the function mailComposeController is executed. NSLog displays the label "Mail sent" and the initial screen reappears.

If I'm in the dialog box of send mail, click "Cancel" button, then dialogue does not disappear, function mailComposeController does not work, two buttons - "Send" and "Cancel", becoming gray color and so it stays.

What wrong?

Matelote

Answer 1

Seems to be bug in iOS 8. Same problem exist in Objective-C also.

Mills

Damn! :-) I already went through hundreds of different options! :-) – Matelote

Is this bug still persist?, I am facing same issue in Xcode6.0.1 – Fusionism

The presentingViewController is the one responsible of dismissing the presentedViewController, not self – Bughouse

Answer 2

You're trying to dismiss self instead of the MFMailComposeViewController (which isn't self).

Replace:

self.dismissModalViewControllerAnimated(true)

with:

controller.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)

in the delegate method.

Peephole

Just tried: controller.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil) and controller.dismissModalViewControllerAnimated(true) - no change, MFMailCompose does not dismissed :-( – Matelote

My problem is didFinishWithResult not fired. – Ka

Answer 3

Bug has been resolved. Everything is working as expected in iOS 8.1+ and Xcode 6.1+

The following fires and works fine

extension MainViewController: MFMailComposeViewControllerDelegate {
    func mailComposeController(controller: MFMailComposeViewController!, didFinishWithResult result: MFMailComposeResult, error: NSError!) {
        switch result.value {
        case MFMailComposeResultCancelled.value:
            NSLog("Mail cancelled")
        case MFMailComposeResultSaved.value:
            NSLog("Mail saved")
        case MFMailComposeResultSent.value:
            NSLog("Mail sent")
        case MFMailComposeResultFailed.value:
            NSLog("Mail sent failure: %@", [error.localizedDescription])
        default:
            break
        }
        self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)
    }
}

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