How to get visible viewController from app delegate when using storyboard?

We implemented it as an UIApplication extension:

import UIKit

extension UIApplication {

    var visibleViewController: UIViewController? {

        guard let rootViewController = keyWindow?.rootViewController else {
            return nil
        }

        return getVisibleViewController(rootViewController)
    }

    private func getVisibleViewController(_ rootViewController: UIViewController) -> UIViewController? {

        if let presentedViewController = rootViewController.presentedViewController {
            return getVisibleViewController(presentedViewController)
        }

        if let navigationController = rootViewController as? UINavigationController {
            return navigationController.visibleViewController
        }

        if let tabBarController = rootViewController as? UITabBarController {
            return tabBarController.selectedViewController
        }

        return rootViewController
    }
}

@aviatorken89's answer worked well for me. I had to translate it to Swift - for anybody starting out with Swift:

Updated for Swift 3:

func getVisibleViewController(_ rootViewController: UIViewController?) -> UIViewController? {

    var rootVC = rootViewController
    if rootVC == nil {
        rootVC = UIApplication.shared.keyWindow?.rootViewController
    }

    if rootVC?.presentedViewController == nil {
        return rootVC
    }

    if let presented = rootVC?.presentedViewController {
        if presented.isKind(of: UINavigationController.self) {
            let navigationController = presented as! UINavigationController
            return navigationController.viewControllers.last!
        }

        if presented.isKind(of: UITabBarController.self) {
            let tabBarController = presented as! UITabBarController
            return tabBarController.selectedViewController!
        }

        return getVisibleViewController(presented)
    }
    return nil
}

Old answer:

func applicationWillResignActive(application: UIApplication) {
    let currentViewController = getVisibleViewController(nil)
}

func getVisibleViewController(var rootViewController: UIViewController?) -> UIViewController? {

    if rootViewController == nil {
        rootViewController = UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.rootViewController
    }

    if rootViewController?.presentedViewController == nil {
        return rootViewController
    }

    if let presented = rootViewController?.presentedViewController {
        if presented.isKindOfClass(UINavigationController) {
            let navigationController = presented as! UINavigationController
            return navigationController.viewControllers.last!
        }

        if presented.isKindOfClass(UITabBarController) {
            let tabBarController = presented as! UITabBarController
            return tabBarController.selectedViewController!
        }

        return getVisibleViewController(presented)
    }
    return nil
}

This should do it for you:

- (void)applicationWillResignActive:(UIApplication *)application
{
    UIViewController *vc = [self visibleViewController:[UIApplication sharedApplication].keyWindow.rootViewController];
}

- (UIViewController *)visibleViewController:(UIViewController *)rootViewController
{
    if (rootViewController.presentedViewController == nil)
    {
        return rootViewController;
    }
    if ([rootViewController.presentedViewController isKindOfClass:[UINavigationController class]])
    {
        UINavigationController *navigationController = (UINavigationController *)rootViewController.presentedViewController;
        UIViewController *lastViewController = [[navigationController viewControllers] lastObject];

        return [self visibleViewController:lastViewController];
    }
    if ([rootViewController.presentedViewController isKindOfClass:[UITabBarController class]])
    {
        UITabBarController *tabBarController = (UITabBarController *)rootViewController.presentedViewController;
        UIViewController *selectedViewController = tabBarController.selectedViewController;

        return [self visibleViewController:selectedViewController];
    }

    UIViewController *presentedViewController = (UIViewController *)rootViewController.presentedViewController;

    return [self visibleViewController:presentedViewController];
}