navigating to ViewControllers that aren't on the UITabBar - ios

I started using UITabBarController and it is great.
The thing is I have a few views that aren't accessed from the UITabBar
(either presented modal programatically or we want to have a button on the top to jump to them)
The thing is that I want to retain the Tab bar visible in these views.
From my understanding mixing presentViewController and UITabBarController is problematic.
How can I do that? Can I have "hidden" tab bar elements I can reference programatically?
Just to clarify with an example:
Views A,B,C,D are in the tab bar - via the storyboard - everything is peachy.
I NEED to have views E and F clickable from the top navigation (please don't suggest a sliding TabBar or a multiple line UITabBar).
I could just jump to E and F but I want the UITabBar to still be visible so the user can jump from E to A for example.

Just use the good old UINavigationController for every tab and just use [self.navigationController pushViewController:A animated:YES];
That's how the setup looks in code:
SGTabBarViewController *rootVC = [[SGTabBarViewController alloc] init];
SGFirstTabViewController *firstVC = [[SGFirstTabViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navController1 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:firstVC];
SGSecondTabViewController *secondVC = [[SGSecondTabViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navController2 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:secondVC];
SGThirdTabViewController *thirdVC = [[SGThirdTabViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navController3 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:thirdVC];
SGForuthTabViewController *fourhtVC = [[SGForuthTabViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navController4 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:fourhtVC];
rootVC.viewControllers = #[navController1, navController2, navController3, navController4];
self.window.rootViewController = rootVC;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
If you want your UITabBar visible on every VC you push just use hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = NO; on it.
However, there is no way to have UITabBar visible on views presented modally.

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SplitViewController in only one of the existing 5 views?

I have 5 views in my app and I'm appDelegate by setting them in the following way:
UITabBarController *tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:navigationcontroller1, navigationcontroller7, navigationcontroller5, navigationcontroller4, navigationcontroller6, navigationcontroller2, nil];
self.window.rootViewController = tabBarController;
All of them come with a NavigationController and tabbarcontroller, But I needed to split the screen into two parts, in this case the screen would be divided would be navigationcontroller2, as you can see below:
VendaViewController *venda_viewcontroller = [[VendaViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navigationcontroller2 = [[UINavigationController alloc] init];
[navigationcontroller2 pushViewController:venda_viewcontroller animated:YES];
Hence I tried the following way:
VendaViewController *venda_viewcontroller = [[VendaViewController alloc] init];
VendaDetailViewController *vendaDetail_viewcontroller = [[VendaDetailViewController alloc] init];
UISplitViewController *splitVC = [[UISplitViewController alloc] init];
[splitVC setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:venda_viewcontroller,vendaDetail_viewcontroller,nil]];
UINavigationController *navigationcontroller2 = [[UINavigationController alloc] init];
[navigationcontroller2 pushViewController:splitVC animated:YES];
But not work in this code, but in documentation of UISplitViewController is writing the following message:
"you must always install the view from a UISplitViewController object
as the root view of your application’s window. [...] Split view
controllers cannot be presented modally."
So...If I like to put a splitViewController in my view controller, I'll have to put splitViewController in all of my views controllers? Or have another solution to this?
You can use a UISplitViewController only as the root view controller of your app. In your case you can implement your custom container view controller with functionality similar to the split (two subview controller inside the main). Follow this link for details.

How to show the Navigation Bar in an iOS view?

I'm opening a View from the navigationController, using the NVSlideMenuController. However, I haven't been able to show a Navigation Bar (which I definitely need).
I'm not familiar with NavigationControllers and after following a few tutorials, it still isn't clear enough to me how it works.
This is in the AppDelegate application didFinishLaunching:
IntroViewController* introVC = [[IntroViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"IntroViewController" bundle:nil];
UIViewController *menuViewController = [[MenuViewController alloc] initWithStyle:UITableViewStyleGrouped]; // Your menu view controller
UIViewController *contentViewController = (UIViewController*)introVC; // The initial content view controller
menuViewController.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = false;
NVSlideMenuController *slideMenuController = [[NVSlideMenuController alloc] initWithMenuViewController:menuViewController andContentViewController:contentViewController];
self.window.rootViewController = slideMenuController;
return YES;
I tried adding the code to put the navbarhidden to false and it doesn't seem to work. Is there something else I missed?
Any help is very appreciated!
MyViewController *myViewController = [[MyViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:myViewController];
self.window.rootViewController = navigationController;
This will set the UINavigationController as your root view controller. If you MUST use NVSlideMenuController (which I have 0 experience with but really don't think it is necessary), then you can do the first two lines I gave you, and set the navigationController as the root for the NCSlideMenuController.
I would recommend Apple's documentation for UINavigationController, it is an extremely useful thing to know:
https://developer.apple.com/LIBRARY/IOS/documentation/UIKit/Reference/UINavigationController_Class/Reference/Reference.html

getting two navigation bar when clicking tabbar more button

Having one main navigation controller in whole application and also one main tabbarcontroller , problem is that when i click om 'more' tab of tabbarcontroller at that time it's showing two navigation bars
to solve this problem i tried to hide my main navigation controllers navigationbar using following code :
self.tabbar.navigationController.navigationBarHidden =YES;
but doing this gives me unexpected result in the form of half navigationbar with half black background.
if any one knows the solution then please help me.
thanks in advance.
make viewController With separate UINavigationController,
put this code in Appdelegate
ViewController *a = [[ViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"a" bundle:nil];
ViewController *b= [[CreateMeetingViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"b" bundle:nil];
ViewController *c = [[SettingsViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"c" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *nav_1 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:a];
UINavigationController *nav_2 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:b];
UINavigationController *nav_3 = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:c];
MainTabBar = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
MainTabBar.delegate = self;
[MainTabBar setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:nav_1,nav_2,nav_3,nil]];
MainTabBar.view.frame=self.view.frame;
[self.view addSubview:MainTabBar.view];
You can check your .Xib you check the option Top Bar this should be 'None' in the identity inspector.
Write in viewWillAppear, i hope it will be helpful for you
[self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];

IOS Adding a TabBar Controller to a view

My IOS app has a login sequence that cannot be modified, once the sequence is complete I do the following in the app delegate
- (UIViewController*)newRootViewController {
NViewController *nView = [[NViewController alloc]
initWithNibName:#"NViewController"
bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *navVC = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:nView];
[nView release];
return navVC;
}
Once in nView is it possible to add a tab bar controller or how can I replace nView with a tab bar controller.
You can create a UITabBarController then add your NViewController and other controllers to the tab bar.
NViewController *nView = [[NViewController alloc]
initWithNibName:#"NViewController"
bundle:nil];
//Create my tab bar
UITabBarController* myTabController = [[UITabBarController alloc]init];
//Add my tabs
NSArray* tabs = [[NSArray alloc]initWithObjects:nView, nil];
[myTabController setViewControllers:tabs];

Why is modal presentation form sheet not being displayed as expected?

I'm just trying a really simple example here as I start to delve into iOS development for ipad.
I'm creating a split view and immediately trying to present a modal form sheet.
Should be really basic.
With what I've tried I get what behaves like a page sheet instead.
In landscape I can see the split view beneath but I don't see the top of my modal view (the tool bar is hidden but is in view in portrait).
I would expect to just grey out the split view beneath a 540x620 modal dialog. I should see the split view beneath my modal in both portrait and landscape like all the nice form sheet dialogs in the Cheddar app for example.
I must be doing something wrong here but all the examples I've read and same within the Cheddar app are doing pretty much what I outline below.
In the app delegate:
MasterViewController *masterViewController = [[MasterViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"MasterViewController" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *masterNavigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:masterViewController];
DetailViewController *detailViewController = [[DetailViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"DetailViewController" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *detailNavigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:detailViewController];
masterViewController.detailViewController = detailViewController;
self.splitViewController = [[UISplitViewController alloc] init];
self.splitViewController.delegate = detailViewController;
self.splitViewController.viewControllers = #[masterNavigationController, detailNavigationController];
self.window.rootViewController = self.splitViewController;
[self.window addSubview:self.splitViewController.view];
ModalViewController *modalView = [[ModalViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"ModalViewController" bundle:nil];
UINavigationController *navController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:modalView];
navController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFormSheet;
[self.splitViewController presentViewController:navController animated:NO completion:nil];
The app delegate is way too soon. You have no interface yet, so you can't coherently do any presenting of any view controller.
So, first thing, move all your modalView code to the viewDidAppear: of your detailViewController.

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