How to implement tab bar controller with navigation controller in right way

Hi you need to embed each view controller that is within the tab bar in a navigation controller of its own. So the flow is like so (HomeVC is embedded in a NavController of it’s own): / –> `NavController` –> `ViewController1` | –> `NavController` –> `ViewController2` `HomeViewController`–>`TabBarController`|–> `NavController` –> `ViewController3` \–> `NavController` –> `ViewController4` Go … Read more

View Controllers: How to switch between views programmatically?

There’s a nice example of switching views in Chapter 6 of Beginning iPhone Development. You can see the source code for it here: http://iphonedevbook.com/ SwitchViewController has the code to change views programatically. – (IBAction)switchViews:(id)sender { if (self.yellowViewController == nil) { YellowViewController *yellowController = [[YellowViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@”YellowView” bundle:nil]; self.yellowViewController = yellowController; [yellowController release]; } [UIView beginAnimations:@”View … Read more

How to hide uitabbarcontroller

I am pasting this from my working code… you can call these methods to hide and show the tabbarcontroller…. just pass tabbarcontroller instance to these functions.. // Method call [self hideTabBar:self.tabBarController]; // Method implementations – (void)hideTabBar:(UITabBarController *) tabbarcontroller { [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL]; [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5]; for(UIView *view in tabbarcontroller.view.subviews) { if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]]) { [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, … Read more

Tab bar controller inside a navigation controller, or sharing a navigation root view

The two previous answers got it right – I don’t use UITabBarController in Tweetie. It’s pretty easy to write a custom XXTabBarController (plain subclass of UIViewController) that is happy to get pushed onto a nav controller stack, but still lives by the “view controller” philosophy. Each “tab” on the account-specific view (Tweets/Replies/Messages) is its own … Read more