i am designing an app, ios based. i am doing this with the guidelines of apple. but i have a question about the tab bar below the app. Apps like spotify, facebook ,whatsapp and twitter are using a tab bar below the screen.
Is it possible in de 'code' to change the height of this? I am asking this because of the target audience. also the font-size.
Example
https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/facebook-updated-screenshot-ios-7.png?w=730&crop=1
sorry if the question does not belong here in the community.
You can't change the height of an UITabBar or the font size of the bar button labels.
If you need this, you must either build your own TabBar or see if someone has already done it. (Search for UITabBar or UITabBarController replacement)
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In a Tab Bar View Controller I use the Apple Bar Button Icon 'Favorites'.
When I run the App on my iPhone with the locale setting 'Germany' I expect 'Favorites' to be translated into german like it's working in the iBooks App. But this is not the case. Do I have to make some extra adjustments in Xcode for that?
Thanks
Martin
I am developing an app on which i want to show a tab bar at the top of the screen.When user tap on tab then it should redirect user to different screen.Normally i see tab bar at bottom.So What will happen if i show tab bar at top.
1.Does it violate apple human interface guidelines?
2. If i don't follow apple Human Interface Guidelines.Will apple reject my app on app store?
Please suggest me what to do?
Are you thinking tabs, as in browsers? If so, then no putting your tabs or a tab button in the top of the screen doesn't violate any guidelines. For example, the newly released Firefox for iOS has a tab button in the top right corner.
However, you should generally show how you have tried to find an answer, as the iOS Human Interface Guidelines provide clear guidelines about how you should design your app.
iOS Human Interface Guidelines
So i only want to display the time for the status bar. Is there a way to format the status bar to only show the time, or am I going to have to just implement a time display object and hide the status bar? Any help would be great!! Thanks
There is no public API to modify the status bar. You can implement a status bar of your own, but note that partially implementing a status bar is against Apple's AppStore rules and potentially unsafe (more specifically, replacing the functionality of a status bar which the users are accustomed to). For example, see here:
We found your app uses system-provided items in a non-standard manner,
which is not in compliance with the App Store Review Guidelines.
Specifically, we found your app animates the status bar. Please see
the attached screenshot for reference to the issue [screen shot shows
the custom status bar saying "Up To Date"].
Learn more about system-provided items in the iOS Human Interface
Guidelines, sections: "System-Provided Buttons and Icons" and "iOS UI
Element Usage Guidelines."
If you still want to implement you can either hide the system status bar and a new view to each of your views, or create a new UIWindow with a windowLevel of UIWindowLevelStatusBar + 1 and a frame of [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarFrame and a label, will give you exactly what you need.
I am using a custom tabbar. Related to this I have a question regarding the iOS Human Interface Guidelines.
First I will state something about my app development process. In my custom tabbar, for example: if I select Settings, it will move to the settings view, but in that settings view there won't be Custom tabbar. Instead, there will be a back button. Like this, it'll be the same for the remaining tabs also.
Because of this, is there a problem while submitting the app to the App Store? Based on iOS Human Interface Guidelines, as far as I checked, there isn't any problem.
It's OK. No problem with that. I already added an app like this. Please check this one:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photomatrix/id645791639?ls=1&mt=8
I added the gallery like you said (without any tab bar).
I am just starting out iOS development and have some doubts about Tab Bars Human Interface Guidelines provided by Apple.
On the iOS HIG document concerning Tab Bars, it reads:
"A tab bar appears at the bottom edge of the screen and should be
accessible from every location in the app."
The app I am developing and would like to see published in the App Store once finished, would have a ListView as it's first screen that would then go to another screen with a tabbed interface after an item being selected. It would also be possible to go back to the first screen (the one with the list) at any time within the tabbed interface (the 2nd screen).
So, my question is if it's ok to have a Tab Bar interface only in the second screen of an iOS application or would something like that might result in some restrictions by apple approving?
Thanks.
Short answer is YES.
Yes, you can have tab bar in second screen. Consider the app where you have first screen as language select screen and second screen with tab bar controller.
With statement below, what Apple means is once you are in tab-bar controller and tab-bar controller is in scope, tab-bar controller should be accessible. You can hide the tab-bar, but on tapping, it should come again at the bottom of screen.
"A tab bar appears at the bottom edge of the screen and should be accessible from every location in the app."
Main words -> Should be. Apple wants you to make your apps in the most intuitive and user friendly way possible. Many standard apps use this paradigm (ie App Store Application) so they know iOS users are accustomed as to how to navigate. However, Apple themselves even make exceptions to this rule (ie. Playing a song inside the Music App). But yeah, they'll let you do it no problem.