UIApplication Swift category to add visibleViewControllers property

UIApplication+VisibleViewControllers.swift

import UIKit

extension UIApplication {
    
    private struct AssociatedObjectsKeys {
        static var visibleViewControllersPointers = "UIApplication_visibleViewControllersPointers"
    }

    fileprivate var visibleViewControllersPointers: NSPointerArray {
        var pointers = objc_getAssociatedObject(self, &AssociatedObjectsKeys.visibleViewControllersPointers) as! NSPointerArray?
        if (pointers == nil) {
            pointers = NSPointerArray.weakObjects()
            objc_setAssociatedObject(self, &AssociatedObjectsKeys.visibleViewControllersPointers, pointers, objc_AssociationPolicy.OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC)
        }
        return pointers!
    }
    
    var visibleViewControllers: [UIViewController] {
        return visibleViewControllersPointers.allObjects as! [UIViewController]
    }
}

extension UIViewController {
    
    private static func swizzleFunc(withOriginalSelector originalSelector: Selector, swizzledSelector: Selector) {
        let originalMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(self, originalSelector)
        let swizzledMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(self, swizzledSelector)
        let didAddMethod = class_addMethod(self, originalSelector, method_getImplementation(swizzledMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(swizzledMethod))
        if didAddMethod {
            class_replaceMethod(self, swizzledSelector, method_getImplementation(originalMethod), method_getTypeEncoding(originalMethod))
        } else {
            method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, swizzledMethod);
        }
    }
    
    override open class func initialize() {
        if self != UIViewController.self {
            return
        }
        let swizzlingClosure: () = {
            UIViewController.swizzleFunc(withOriginalSelector: #selector(UIViewController.viewDidAppear(_:)),
                                         swizzledSelector: #selector(uiapplication_visibleviewcontrollers_viewDidAppear(_:)))
            UIViewController.swizzleFunc(withOriginalSelector: #selector(UIViewController.viewDidDisappear(_:)),
                                         swizzledSelector: #selector(uiapplication_visibleviewcontrollers_viewDidDisappear(_:)))
        }()
        swizzlingClosure
    }
    
    @objc private func uiapplication_visibleviewcontrollers_viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
        UIApplication.shared.visibleViewControllersPointers.addPointer(Unmanaged.passUnretained(self).toOpaque())
        uiapplication_visibleviewcontrollers_viewDidAppear(animated)
    }

    @objc private func uiapplication_visibleviewcontrollers_viewDidDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
        let pointers = UIApplication.shared.visibleViewControllersPointers
        for i in 0..<pointers.count {
            if let pointer = pointers.pointer(at: i) {
                let viewController = Unmanaged<UIViewController>.fromOpaque(pointer).takeUnretainedValue()
                if viewController.isEqual(self) {
                    pointers.removePointer(at: i)
                    break
                }
            }
        }
        uiapplication_visibleviewcontrollers_viewDidDisappear(animated)
    }
}