Presenting a View Controller with a button in a UITableViewCell programmatically (Swift)
The presentViewController:animated:completion is an instance method of the UIViewController not UIView or a subclass of. You can try this:
self.window?.rootViewController.presentViewController(specificViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)However, I suggest that you should use the presentViewController:animated:completion: method from UIViewController. A callback mechanism can be achieved between the UIViewController and the cell.
Banning's answer works, however the syntax is old. From Swift 4:
self.window?.rootViewController?.present(vc, animated: true, completion: nil)
swift3 version
let storyboard = UIStoryboard(name: "MainViewController", bundle: nil)let messagesViewController = storyboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "MessagesViewController") as! MessagesViewControllerself.window?.rootViewController?.present(messagesViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)