Switching to a TabBar tab view programmatically?

Question

Let\'s say I have a UIButton in one tab view in my iPhone app, and I want to have it open a different tab in the tab bar of the TabBarController.

Answer 1

For cases where you may be moving the tabs, here is some code.

for ( UINavigationController *controller in self.tabBarController.viewControllers ) {
            if ( [[controller.childViewControllers objectAtIndex:0] isKindOfClass:[MyViewController class]]) {
                [self.tabBarController setSelectedViewController:controller];
                break;
            }
        }

Answer 2

Use in AppDelegate.m file:

(void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController
 didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
{

     NSLog(@"Selected index: %d", tabBarController.selectedIndex);

    if (viewController == tabBarController.moreNavigationController)
    {
        tabBarController.moreNavigationController.delegate = self;
    }

    NSUInteger selectedIndex = tabBarController.selectedIndex;

    switch (selectedIndex) {

        case 0:
            NSLog(@"click me %u",self.tabBarController.selectedIndex);
            break;
        case 1:
            NSLog(@"click me again!! %u",self.tabBarController.selectedIndex);
            break;

        default:
            break;

    }

}

Answer 3

I wanted to be able to specify which tab was shown by class rather than index as I thought it made for a robust solution that was less dependant on how you wire up IB. I didn't find either Disco's or Joped's solutions to work so i created this method:

-(void)setTab:(Class)class{
    int i = 0;
    for (UINavigationController *controller in self.tabBarContontroller.viewControllers){
        if ([controller isKindOfClass:class]){
            break;
        }
        i++;
    }
    self.tabBarContontroller.selectedIndex = i;
}

you call it like this:

[self setTab:[YourClass class]];

Hope this is helpful to someone

Answer 4

Note that the tabs are indexed starting from 0. So the following code snippet works

tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
.
.
.
tabBarController.selectedViewController = [tabBarController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:4];

goes to the fifth tab in the bar.

Answer 5

You can simply just set the selectedIndex property on the UITabBarController to the appropriate index and the view will be changed just like the user tapped the tab button.

Answer 6

Try this code in Swift or Objective-C

Swift

self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 1

Objective-C

[self.tabBarController setSelectedIndex:1];