I\'m using Nativescript with Typescript/Angular and, for both iOS and Android, I\'d like to hide the navigation tab buttons completely without losing the swipe functionality
The best way todo this is to do it programatically. Take alook at this issue here at https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-angular/issues/621.
Simply create tabs programmatically and then you can control them. You can't remove tabs from hierarchy once they are added to the tree from the UI.