Ok, I have all my view controllers managed by a tab bar controller, and obviously when you connect in the storyboard the relationship between the controller and the Vcs as "view controller" a button appears on the tab bar. These are then accessible via the tab bar controller.
My problem is I need to have one VC be the in view controller array but NOT BE SHOWN IN A BUTTON on the tab bar. It should not be accessible to the user, but I need to be able to switch to that VC in code with selectedIndex
I do not know how to do this. I have tried disabling the button and doing
self.tabBar.items?[3].accessibilityElementsHidden = true
But the button is still there on the tab bar. How can I have the VC in the array of the tab bar controller but not shown in a button?
This is not possible using the UITabBarController as is.
Not 100% sure on why you need to have a VC in that array but never visible on the bar, consider subclassing UITabBarController if thats the case.
Changes to the viewControllers or items property of a UITabBarController will encourage iOS to reload the Component and hence why you are seeing the VC in the TabBar.
Related
In the bottom left viewcontroller i have a searchbar at the top that call the tableview at the top , the problem is that i want to segue to the right viewcontroller with detail of it, but of course i'm losing my navigationController so when i'm into the right viewcontroller i can't go back anymore, how should i do to go back to my original Viewcontroller ?
Add Navigation Controller as the starting view in storyboard. And then Link RootViewController to it. This will ensure navigation bar in all the views coming next.
you may hide navigation bar in the view where not needed as
self.navigationController?.isNavigationBarHidden = true
push newViewController instead of presenting
Also please check, if you are presenting it modally. Modal segues take over the whole screen, so any navigation bars, tool bars, or tab bars that are in the presenting controller will be covered up. If you want a navigation bar on this modal controller, you'll need to add one specifically to it, and add any buttons you want to that new navigation bar (or tool bar). If you don't want to do this, then don't present it modally, do a push to it.
The Problem
I'm relatively new to Swift and I'm trying to build an application that makes use of a UITabBarController.
What I'm trying to do is put a different navigation bar (or UINavigationItem) on each of the tabs in the UITabBarController.
For example, I want the UINavigationItem I set, with its bar button items, to appear on MyViewController instead of a back button to the previous view controller, such as shown on the image below.
The current layout on the Storyboard is as follows.
MyViewController on the sidebar:
What I've Tried
Someone suggested that I should embed each UIViewController (e.g. MyViewController) in a Navigation Controller. I've tried this and it doesn't work.
I've also tried to set the Top Bar to "None" in the Attributes tab of the options menu.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Here is how i did it,
UINavigationController -> UITabbarController
And then each "Tab" is in different Storyboard and every storyboard start with a "Navigation Controller". So yes every tab in different navigation controller this how you should do it.
Different storyboards because may be multiple people work on storyboard at same time.
Why TabbarController inside Navigationcontroller ?
I put the "TabbarController" inside "NavigationController" because some of the controllers i want them to be full screen, like hiding the "Tabbar" so for that i push them from main NavigationController.
//Out of context but may help you,
I have created an "Extension" of Navigation Controller to push a view controller on main navigation so that any of the tabbars (which are also inside navigation controllers) can easily use the extension to push any view controller if want to hide the tabbar.
I have app, where is Segmented Control inside of my Navigation Bar. Under navigation bar I have 3 containers. In these containers I have Table View Controllers. If you tap on segmented control, one TVC appear and others disappear (container1.hidden = true and so on).
Problem is when I press "save" button which is also in navigation controller - button doesn't trigger "virtual push of back button".
I used following code which works in my other projects (its in button's action which is in VC that contains all container views) but not this time:
if let navController = self.navigationController {
navController.popViewControllerAnimated(true)
}
Image for better insight:
UPDATE: Thanks to # Alexey Bondarchuk I solved it. Comments may be confusing so I just recap problem and solution.
Originally, I had ViewController. To this controller I embed in Navigation Controller. To this Navigation Controller I connected segues. And that was mistake.
So I deleted this embed in navigation controller, made (show) segues directly to my View Controller (which is on screenshot). This automatically created navigation bar and last thing I did was that I put navigation item in it so now my code pop right navigationController. Hope that it's understandable.
I have couple ideas:
Your navigationController equal to 'nil' and .popViewControllerAnimated will never invoked. This may happen if you are using UITabBarController. In this case try to use self.tabBarController?.navigationController instead of self.navigationController.
Your controller presented 'Modally'. In this case you can try to invoke navController.dismissViewControllerAnimatedinstead of navController.popViewControllerAnimated
I want to add UITabBarController as root view of my UINavigation controller. The purpose of that is that I want to make similar navigation as Facebook app: Then user select contact on Contacts tab - pushed view with user details doesn't have TabBar.
So, I have navigation controller, tab bar as a root view or it and couple TableViewControllers inside this UITabBarController.
I have two major issues with that:
I can't assign title for navigation bar for root views of tabbar. If I open contact details I have navigation bar title and no tab bar (as I wanted). But if I select Contacts or Favorites - those views have empty navigation bar title. I've tried to set it on viewDidLoad and viewDidApper without any success
Even worse issue. When I press Favorites table view insets are broken. first cell is under navigation bar. First loaded tableview (in my case Contact) displayed correctly. Adjust scroll view insets is YES for both TableViews.
Update:
Solution storyboard (note property "Hide Bottom Bar on the Push" is switched to YES).
I was also struggling with UITabBarController + UINavigationController issue. When UITabBarController was contained by UINavigationController, content insets were acting really weird.
I would suggest to use navigation controllers inside UITabBarController and when next controller is pushed, set 'hidesBottomBarWhenPushed' on that controller to YES.
This would also solve setting navigation bar title, as navigation controller is closer to view controller. You can just use self.navigationItem.
If you leave it to current setup - UITabController contained within UINavigationController, then you need to modify navigationItem on controllers tabBarController (self.tabBarController.navigationItem). Note that best place for it would be in view controllers 'viewWillAppear' for every controller contained within UITabBarController, as they share one navigation item.
I instantiate my UITabBarController by calling navigationController.viewControllers = #[[self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"tabController"]];
My Tab bar controller has a child view that is embedded in a navigation controller. However the bar button (item) is unresponsive when I touch them (the buttons in the navigation bar). I have tried logging the action but it appears as if the button is not firing at all.
The only thing that I have done differently is the way i instantiated the tab bar controller. Am I missing something?
I connected the navigation bar button from the storyboard to an action so it is hooked up successfully. Please note there is also a navigation Controller pointing to the UITabbarController not shown below.
The unwanted behaviour maybe because this flow (navigation controller to tabbar controller) is ill advised in the Apple HIG. More information can be found here: Storyboard with NavigationController and TabController. The solution I found was to hide the navigation bar on the navigation controller that links to the navigation bar (can be done in interface builder), then make it reappear in the new navigation controller that the tab bar links to. Confusing I know, I can help anyone who ever has a similar issue.
Is there any specific reason you are doing this:
navigationController.viewControllers = #[[self.storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:#"tabController"]];
You can simply drag an outlet from the UITableViewController to the UINavigationController using only the Storyboard.
I think you forgot to add the navigationItem. In the storyboard, add a navigation Item to your viewController and move your bar button items to the navigation bar that appears on the top.