Conditionally start at different places in storyboard from AppDelegate

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I’m surprised at some of the solutions being suggested here.

There’s really no need for dummy navigation controllers in your storyboard, hiding views & firing segues on viewDidAppear: or any other hacks.

If you don’t have the storyboard configured in your plist file, you must create both the window and the root view controller yourself :

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{        
    BOOL isLoggedIn = ...;    // from your server response

    NSString *storyboardId = isLoggedIn ? @"MainIdentifier" : @"LoginIdentifier";
    UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"Storyboard" bundle:nil];
    UIViewController *initViewController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:storyboardId];

    self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
    self.window.rootViewController = initViewController;
    [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];

    return YES;
}

If the storyboard is configured in the app’s plist, the window and root view controller will already be setup by the time application:didFinishLaunching: is called, and makeKeyAndVisible will be called on the window for you.

In that case, it’s even simpler:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{        
    BOOL isLoggedIn = ...;    // from your server response

    NSString *storyboardId = isLoggedIn ? @"MainIdentifier" : @"LoginIdentifier";
    self.window.rootViewController = [self.window.rootViewController.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:storyboardId];

    return YES;
}

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