How do I create a "back" button on a View Controller that was initiated from a UITab Bar?
I am initiating the View Controller form the UI Tab Controller. How do I add a back button?
The short answer is "don't". Apples HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) say that when you use a tab bar controller, it should be the top-level navigational control of your app.
You could have one of the tabs contain a navigation controller, and that child view controller could have a navigation bar that includes a back button, but you should not have the tab bar controller be a child of a navigation controller.
If you wanted to violate Apples HIG and make the root level view controller be a navigation controller that contained a tab bar controller you could do that but it would make for a confusing interface. You'd make the root view controller of your app a navigation controller. Then one of the view controllers you pushed onto that navigation controller would be a tab bar controller. When you pressed the back button the navigation controller would pop that navigation controller off the stack and leave you with whatever view controller was under the tab bar controller.
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I don't understand why SignIn and SignUp navigation Bar and the back buttons are not visible even when embedding both of these views in the navigation controllers.
Is there anything else we have to do in code. All top bars are inferred in this case and I haven't touched the visibility of any.
There is no back button because there is nowhere to go back to. Your sign up and sign in view controllers are the root view controllers of their respective navigation controllers.
There is no visible title because what you are looking at is the navigation item of the tab bar controller, which has no title.
Your architecture posits a navigation controller insider a navigation controller, which is illegal:
nav controller -> tab bar controller -> nav controller
You can't do that.
Also you can't put a tab bar controller inside a navigation controller. A navigation interface inside a tabbed interface is fine (as illustrate in Apple's own docs: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uinavigationcontroller). The reverse, a tabbed interface inside a navigation interface, is not.
The simplest solution is to eliminate the first navigation controller completely, as there is no need for it (you are not pushing anything onto it beyond its root view controller).
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Logically, your Tabbar should not be embedded in a UINavigation Controller. Instead, delete the NavigationController and make the Tabbar the root Viewcontroller then embed each UIViewcontroller in a separate Navigation controller
I have a view controller. I choose Editor->Embed In->Navigation Controller option. A navigation controller is added to storyboard and my view controller becomes root view controller. Besides, A Navigation Item is added at the top of my view controller.
On the other hand, we can put a navigation bar on view controllers and we can create forward backward transition between view controllers without navigation controller.
What is difference between navigation item and navigation bar ?
The navigation item manages the buttons (left and right) and views (mainly the title view) to be displayed in a navigation bar.
Each navigation item points to a specific view controller.
The navigation bar is the container for the navigation item and mainly handles layout, transitions and animations.
You can read more about them in the official docs:
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uinavigationitem
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uinavigationbar
Currently I have a tab bar controller that is connected to various navigation controllers like this:
I'm trying to navigate from one view controller to another view controller that is in a separate navigation controller. The only way I've been able to figure out how to keep the tab bar from disappearing is to create a modal segue to the original tab bar controller. The only problem doing this it automatically goes to the default tab bar viewcontroller and not the one I'm trying to reach.
I am using tab bar controller and i want to push uiview controller over tab bar controller. but i don't know how we push UIView controller over Tab Bar Controller. Thanks
You need to embed a navigation controller in your tab bar controller screen where you want the push set up to work
If I'm reading your question right, you want to push a view controller over another view controller which is currently displaying tabs.
In this case, I believe you would need a UINavigationController as your root view controller. Inside this navigation controller, you would initially push a UITabController with it's associated view controllers per tab. When it's time to push another view controller over the tab controller, create an instance of the view controller to push and use the following code:
[self.navigationController pushViewController:newViewController animated:YES];
This will push the new view controller over the existing TabController that is currently being displayed.
The question is little vague Hence I will add the two way to push to another view controller we use in common.
From navigation controller : You just need to create an UIButton in the navigation controller and then control + drag the button to another view controller to create a push feature to another screen in storyboard.
From Tab view Controller : Similarly, control key + drag the tab bar item in the tab bar controller to another UIView controller in the story board. Then chose 'show' option to create a push to another UIview controller screen.
Hope this helps.
Tab Bar controller is different and Navigation Bar controller is different.
And as Pittmaster says, your navigation view controller should be root view controller.
I am confused with behavior, I have Tab Bar Controller ( I enter on this controller from simple view controller which is embedded in navigation controller). I am confused why is that navigation bar from tab is covered up child navigation bar.
When I start app and I enter at Browse Controller I cannot see Browse title, neither nav bar items which I added programmatically. Can somebody give me clue what is wrong ( I am new to this, I connect with push segue from tab to browse).
Your problem appears to be the same as the one I addressed here:
Push segue from a view controller controlled by UITabBarController
What's happening is that your first NavigationController is creating a Navigation stack. Then you push-segue a TabViewController. That is added to the Nav stack, along with each of it's contained view controllers. However, when you PUSH SEGUE from one of those view controllers to some other view controller, the original navigation controller's stack is the one you are pushing on to. This is not contained inside the tab view controller, so the pushed view controller has no relationship with that tab view controller, just the original navigation controller stack. Therefore the tabs are not present.
The answer is to embed each of the tab controller's view controllers in a new navigation controller, and push on from those. The original navigation controller is just messing things up here...