uitabbar

How to add add UITabBar programmatically for iphone app. Need some suggestion and sample code. - (void) setUpTabBar { FirstViewController *firstViewController = [[FirstViewController alloc]init]; firstViewController.title = @"First View"; firstViewController.tabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc]initWithTabBarSystemItem:UITabBarSystemItemSearch tag:0]; UINavigationController *firstNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:firstViewController]; SecondViewController *secondViewController = [[SecondViewController alloc]init]; secondViewController.title = @"Second View"

I took a regular UITabBar and changed it's background image to a custom one which has a lower height, so I changed the height of the frame . At first what I got is a blank space below the tab bar. so I changed the origin of the frame too. But now the blank space has moved up above the tab bar and this is the result: And this is the code declaring the tab bar in the AppDelegate: self.tabContoller = [[UITabBarController alloc] init]; //customizing the tabbar UIImage * tabBackgroundImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"tabBarBg.png"]; self.tabContoller.tabBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:245.f

I'm having fun learning to build my first iPhone app and wonder if someone would kindly point me in the right direction. I have basically added in custom icons for my tab bar (IOS 7). Now I want to add in a custom selected state icon for each of these. How would I do this? Thanks Shell As of Xcode 6, you can do this by default in Interface Builder. No need for any custom subclasses or categories as before. Here is the swift solution based on @MrAlek's solution, create a custom UITabBarItem import UIKit @IBDesignable class YourTabBarItem: UITabBarItem { @IBInspectable var selectedImageName

I am developing an application based on UITabbar and the view hierarchy as follows. UITabBarController ----> UINavigationController ----> UIViewController I need to access the UITabBarController from the UIIVewController . But following properties always returns nil. self.tabBarController and self.navigationController.tabBarController Is there a way to access the Tabbarcontroller directly from a child viewController without using the AppDelegate ? @implementation HomeViewController - (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil { self = [super initWithNibName

Similar to what the Spotify or Apple Music app does when a song is playing, it places a custom view on top of the UITabBar: Solutions I've tried: UITabBarController in a ViewController with a max-sized Container View, and the custom view on top of the Container View49pt above the Bottom Layout Guide: Problem: Any content in ViewControllers embedded in the UITabBarController constrained to the bottom don't show because they're hidden behind the custom layout. I've tried overriding size forChildContentContainer in UITabBarController, tried updating the bottom layout guide, Nothing. I need to