Setting default tab in UITabBar in swift

Question

I\'m almost finished with a project and am working out the last few UI kinks. My app uses a tab bar to navigate and for aesthetic purposes I want the app to open on the last

Answer 1

There is a nice way to do this straight from interface builder on your tab bar controller click the identity inspector, and set a User Defined Runtime Attribute.

In this case each index of the tab bar control is indexed like a 0 based array. So the far left is 0, next to the right is 1, then 2 etc...

So in my case I wanted 'tasks' to be selected first, so you set the selectedIndex to type Number and value '1'. Refer to my attached image.

Answer 2

In the First items view controller write

tabBarController?.selectedIndex = 2//required value

Answer 3

Just set the selectedIndex of the tabBarController. Something along these lines.

var freshLaunch = true
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
     if freshLaunch == true {
         freshLaunch = false
         self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 4 // 5th tab
     }
}

Answer 4

If you're using UISegue from UIStoryBoard, you can use this in UIViewController where you're performing UISegue

override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
    let tabBarController = segue.destination as? UITabBarController
    tabBarController?.selectedIndex = 1
}

or

class TabBarController: UITabBarController {

   override func viewDidLoad() {
       super.viewDidLoad()
       self.selectedIndex = 1
   }

}

this code in your UITabBarController itself.