DialogViewController Missing Back Button

Question

I am using the NavigationItem to drive the navigation of the application. For all of my controllers inheriting from DialogViewController, the back button doesn't show, even if I do

BackButtonBarItem = news UIBarButtonItem(..)

The back button never shows only for dialogs, but does for every other type of controller. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

Use the overloaded DialogViewController constructor

public DialogViewController (RootElement root, bool pushing)

the bool pushing parameter should be true if your DVC is being pushed onto a NavigationController.

Answer 2

use

public YourDialog () : base (UITableViewStyle.Grouped, null, true)

instead of

public YourDialog () : base (UITableViewStyle.Grouped, null)