I know this is not a very important comment but I really don't think the blue controller is blue it looks like purple to me

In cellForRowAt, what is the difference between using: 1) let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "Cell", for: indexPath) //and 2) let cell = UITableViewCell(style: .default, reuseIdentifier: "Cell") New syntax for the same thing?

Hi Brian, I had two questions: 1) Now that we are not removing child viewController in order to make the hide animation work, every time we tap open, it adds that childViewController. Is that a good practice? 2) In the animation closure, we are using strong self. What if that view controller gets deallocated before that code is executed? Wouldn't that crash our App? Shall we go weak-strong dance? Thanks for your amazing tutorials. I look forward to hearing from you.

Well, I'm a little confused about the discussion below. So, are we going to create the child vc once and reuse it? Or? Also, why add the menu view to the keyWindow? Why not to the HomeVC? After all, it is the HomeVC's responsibility to place it.

Before getting to the question, just want to say this has been a great course so far. I actually finished this section and I'm really enjoying it. Definitely will be purchasing other courses, I love how you actually teach how to do everything programmatically! Here is the actual question, for the actual question of menuWidth fileprivate let menuWidth: CGFloat = 300 Is there a way that I can set it dependent on the view's width, instead of a set number? fileprivate let menuWidth: CGFloat = self.view.frame.width - 100 But I get an error saying that the class has no member value of view. Thank you Brian!

Hi Brian. I have a question. I wrote the deinit func in both controllers, and a print statement to let me know when the controller gets released from memory. But it does not seem to get called at any point, even when we used the removeFromSuperView(). Do you know why it does not get called? If I keep pressing hide and open, am I just stacking up controllers in memory? Your tutorials are amazing! Thanks a lot.

just wandering if we click open side menu button x100 times, then we call addchild x100 times, but never remove it, will build up memory usage? can we call removefromparent() at the animation function completion handler to remove it every time once we done shrink back the menu ? thanks

Hello Brian, I have a question At 19:33, you finished the animation with the slide menu. Everything was okay. I clicked the hide button, the menu was gone with animation. However, when I click the open button, the menu view was not shown up. I did a little bit debug and I found that the animation works only the first time the open button is pressed. After the menu view is hidden by pressing the hide button (it is removed from the superview and from it’s parent view with no animation implemented), if I click the open button again, the animation seems not working. First open -------------------------------------- frame 1: (-331.20000000000005, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) Transform with with: 331.20000000000005 frame 2: (0.0, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) // It is transform and shown Second open -------------------------------------- frame 1: (-331.20000000000005, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) Transform with with: 331.20000000000005 frame 2: (-331.20000000000005, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) // Transformation fails since position x is not changed Third open -------------------------------------- frame 1: (-331.20000000000005, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) Transform with with: 331.20000000000005 frame 2: (-331.20000000000005, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) // Transformation fails since position x is not changed Everything works fine when the animation is also added to the hide button method -------------------------------------- frame 1: (-331.20000000000005, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) Transform with with: 331.20000000000005 frame 2: (0.0, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) // It is transform and shown -------------------------------------- frame 1: (-331.20000000000005, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) Transform with with: 331.20000000000005 frame 2: (0.0, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) // It is transform and shown -------------------------------------- frame 1: (-331.20000000000005, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) Transform with with: 331.20000000000005 frame 2: (0.0, 0.0, 331.20000000000005, 896.0) // It is transform and shown To me, in the first case, since the menuViewController is removed from the superview and form its parent, each time the shown button is pressed, it should be reconstructed and add it to its parent view (illustrated by frame 1 in the first part), and the animation should be executed, however, it turns out it is not the case. Could you give me a hint why this is happening?

Hey Brian, loving the course this far. Upon refactoring ViewController.swift to HomeController.swift, the contents of the file seem to disappear and the file name on left (now called HomeController.swift) is in red font. The error says the build input file cannot be found. This does make sense because when I go to the folder on my desktop where I saved the project and I look for the swift files, I still see ViewController.swift and not HomeController.swift.

Hi Brian, with the animation block, even I commented out the addChild(menuViewController), the table view are still showing on the menu view controller. Do you know why?