I am developing one iPad application using storyboard.For my application i need one tab bar on the left side of the screen.I do not want external liberies for tab bar.Is this possible to arrange the tab bar available in the story board arrange on the left side of the screen.
Like already mentioned, use split view controller which will separate your iPad UI to two parts:
Master view controller - This is usually a table view or collection view that display all elements.
Detail view controller - This displays the detail of selected item in master view controller.
You can communicate between them with delegates, NSNotificationCenter or observers.
You can easily add separate UITabBar views to both master and detail view controller.
You can also read more about it on the links below:
http://www.raywenderlich.com/29469/ipad-for-iphone-developers-101-in-ios-6-uisplitview-tutorial
Good iPad SplitViewController tutorial?
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I've done a lot of research and read a lot about the use of Tab Bar Controllers with Split View Controllers but cannot seem to find any hint of how to solve my problem...
The following post in the Apple Developer Forum for Cocoa Touch under the heading "Place SplitViewController inside TabBarController" has so far given me the greatest lead.
As of iOS 8, embedding a Split View Controller in a tab bar controller
(or your own container view controller) is supported and expected to
'just work'. Pushing a split view controller onto a navigation stack
remains unsupported.
This appears to go against Apple Documentation including this article titled "Combined View Controller Interfaces" dated November 2014.
You can use the view controllers that the UIKit framework provides by
themselves or in conjunction with other view controllers to create
even more sophisticated interfaces. When combining view controllers,
however, the order of containment is important; only certain
arrangements are valid. The order of containment, from child to
parent, is as follows:
Content view controllers, and container view controllers that have
flexible bounds (such as the page view controller)
Navigation view controller
Tab bar controller
Split view controller
I have a UITabBarController with seven tabs. Of these, five tabs lead to UISplitViewControllers and two tabs lead to UINavigationControllers.
Here is a screenshot of some of the storyboard the shows the tab bar controller leading to three of the five split view controllers...
No problem when I run for target with self.traitCollection.horizontalSizeClass = UIUserInterfaceSizeClassRegular - where the horizontal (width) dimension of the device screen is Regular (not Compact) -> running on an iPad. All seven tabs appear across the bottom tab bar and all view controllers, including split view controllers, work perfectly.
My problem?
Xcode spits an error and freezes app operation when I run for target with self.traitCollection.horizontalSizeClass = UIUserInterfaceSizeClassCompact - where the horizontal (width) dimension of the device screen is Compact -> running on iPhone or iPhone Plus. Same outcome, as expected, for both IB and on iOS device.
Error Message: Split View Controllers cannot be pushed to a Navigation Controller <UIMoreNavigationController: 0x7ffda38b0200>
I know why I've received the error. Where the horizontal size class is "Compact", the seven tabs drops to five on screen, including one (specially prepared by iOS) "More" tab. The remaining three tabs are relegated to the "More" tab that is its own navigation controller and table view controller. My storyboard is attempting to push the split view controller onto this navigation stack.
Any thoughts on a legitimate solution?
I would recommend using a custom tab bar controller with a "More" section that does not push view controllers into a navigation controller. Preferably, one that is a subclass of UITabBarController, so you can use it with Interface Builder.
My approach would be to replace the current "More" table view controller with a view controller of your own that shows a list of overflowing tabs, but does not push their corresponding view controllers into the navigation bar when displayed.
One possible strategy is to become the delegate of the UITabBarController's more navigation controller (found in the tab bar controller's moreNavigationController property). Then use a delegate method, such as navigationController:willShowViewController:animated:, to replace the content of the navigation controller's viewControllers array if the view controller to be displayed is anything but your custom "More" view controller.
I haven't tried this, but it seems like a good place to start and does not require too much knowledge of the tabview controller's internals.
Show
Show Detail
Present Modally
Popover presentation
Custom
What is the difference between them? I couldn't find any documentation on it. There used to be some which I found in a Google search, but it's now gone: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-interface_builder/articles-storyboard/StoryboardSegue.html
Here is a quick summary of the segues and an example for each type.
Show - Pushes the destination view controller onto the navigation stack, sliding overtop from right to left, providing a back button to return - if not embedded in a navigation controller it will be presented modally
Example: Navigating in Settings, for example tapping General > About
Show Detail - For use in a split view controller, replaces the secondary view controller when in a multi-column interface, or if collapsed to one column it will push in the navigation controller
Example: In Messages, tapping a conversation will show the conversation details - replacing the view controller on the right when in a two column layout, or push the conversation when in a single column layout
Present Modally - Presents a view controller overtop the current view controller in various fashions as defined by the modal presentation and transition style - most commonly used to present a view controller in a sheet that animates up from the bottom
Example: Selecting Face ID & Passcode in Settings
Popover Presentation - When run on iPad, the destination appears in a popover, and tapping anywhere outside will dismiss it - popovers are supported on iPhone as well but by default it will present the view controller modally
Example: Tapping the + button in Calendar
Custom - You may implement your own custom segue and have control over its behavior
Embed - You may embed a view controller into another view controller, such as navigation, tab bar, and split view controllers as well as custom containers
Unwind - You may use an unwind segue to navigate back to a previous view controller, even if there’s many screens pushed/presented on top all of them will be dismissed
The deprecated segues are essentially the non-adaptive equivalents of those described above. These segue types were deprecated in iOS 8: Push, Modal, Popover, Replace.
For more info, you may read over the Using Segues documentation which also explains the types of segues and how to use them in a Storyboard. Also check out Session 216 Building Adaptive Apps with UIKit from WWDC 2014. They talked about how you can build adaptive apps using these new Adaptive Segues, and they built a demo project that utilizes these segues.
For clarity, I'd like to illustrate #Joey's answer above with these gifs :
Show
Show Detail
Present Modally
Present As Popover
The document has moved here it seems: https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/8.0/#/dev564169bb1
Can't copy the icons here, but here are the descriptions:
Show: Present the content in the detail or master area depending on the content of the screen.
If the app is displaying a master and detail view, the content is pushed onto the detail area. If the app is only displaying the master or the detail, the content is pushed on top of the current view controller stack.
Show Detail: Present the content in the detail area.
If the app is displaying a master and detail view, the new content replaces the current detail. If the app is only displaying the master or the detail, the content replaces the top of the current view controller stack.
Present Modally: Present the content modally.
Present as Popover: Present the content as a popover anchored to an existing view.
Custom: Create your own behaviors by using a custom segue.
For those who prefer a bit more practical learning, select the segue in dock, open the attribute inspector and switch between different kinds of segues (dropdown "Kind"). This will reveal options specific for each of them: for example you can see that "present modally" allows you to choose a transition type etc.
in the google maps app for ios. When you select the settings button, it will show you a view of options such as "traffic", "public transit", etc.
My question is how this is done on ios.
I tried following this tutorial but it says that it won't work on uinavigationviewcrollers. I have seen this partial segue of the the view in apps that use a navigational controller. How do they create that?
It's not a partial segue. It's not a segue at all, it use of containment view controllers.
Instead of a single view controller which transitions to a different view controller image one single master view controller. For simplicity, we'll say this view controller has two views (of the root), both of which cover the the whole screen. For this example let's think of them as "main" view and "menu" view.
Other than these two empty views, the view controller has no content. That's because this view controller does nothing other than manage other view controllers which get stuck into the two views. It will have a couple methods manage them, like presentInMainView:(UIViewController *)viewcontroller and presentInMenuView:(UIViewController *)viewcontroller
When the program starts running the master view controller will programmatically add the map to it's "main" view. The map view controller now cover the whole screen and looks and acts like it's the top level view controller, but it isn't. It's contained. At some point some taps the settings button and the map view controller will make a call to it's parent and say presentInMenuView:... and the master view controller will then load up a second view controller into the menu view. The menu view could even be located off the left side of the screen and the master view controller animates the menu view frame to side it right covering the whole screen. Assuming the menu view controller only has content which covers the left half of the screen you'll see the map view controller hiding behind it.
That really only scratches the surface, lots can be done with container view controllers. You could create a container which lets you brings up a dozen different views all populated with view different view controllers. You could size and arrange them on all over the screen and each child view controller could still only have to deal with it's own contents.
For more info there is the Apple Developer Guide and the WWDC 2011 Videos where it was introduced (session 102)
I used SWRevealViewController For similar type of sidebar animation.They given the good example of how to use SWRevealViewController also please try it once.
I am creating a iPad App and it has several views to load data,but for one view i need to add split view. I dont need split views in other views. They are just detail pages. I search Through the net and found lots of tutorials based on iPad split view. But the problem is they all are creating a project as Split view project or they create a window base app and add slipt view to the delegate. I dont need to do that, I need to implement this split view only for one view. Is There any way to overcome this problem?
You can add the split view inside a Navigation Controller.
Even if the Split View is a container view controller and Apple recommends in the documentation that all containers should not be embedded in other containers, adding a split view inside a navigation controller works correctly and I never noticed any side effect in doing it.
Basically what you should do is:
- in the app delegate create a UINavigationController and use it as root view of your application window
- hide the navigation controller navigation bar if you don't want to see it (showing a split view with a main navbar on top is not nice looking...)
- then add your view controllers inside the navigation bar.
Example: imagine you have this application views sequence:
FIRST VIEW (full view = detail page)
SECOND VIEW (split view)
THIRD VIEW (full = detail page)
So you can represent FIRST and THIRD as standard view controllers (full screen), while SECOND will be a split view. Your app will be initialized by creating the main navigation controller, adding FIRST on it as top controller and using the main navigation controller as window's root view.
Than use the navigation controller push, pop methods to switch between these views or change the navigation controller "viewControllers" array directly if you don't want the recommended push/pop methods.
If you need to add special behavior to the navigation controller based on the type of view on top, just register your app delegate as navigation controller delegate (or a "main controller" object dedicated to this if you don't want to complicate your app delegate).
I am not 100% sure, but it seems to me that you can't use a SplitView just somewhere in your view hierarchy.
The Apple intended way is to use the SplitViewController as the top level controller. The left side of it can include a drill down mechanism with a navigation controller so you are ably to drill down hierarchies and the right side will present details for the item you select on the left side.
If you need a view with some kind of split mechanism in it, you probably have to code it yourself. Or even better: find some other mechanism you can use in your UI.
How are you switching your view hierarchies now? Maybe you could integrate your existing UI into a SplitViewController?
I have a UITabBar in my iPad app, and I need to have a Master-Detail concept on one of my UITabBarviews.
I can't use UISplitViewController because Apple says:
The split view controller’s view should always be installed as the root view
of your application window. You should never present a split view inside of
a navigation or tab bar interface.
Is it ok to have two UITableViews on same view as Master-Detail concept on iPad? Is there any other approach for this idea?
I don't know of any limitation about having two table views in a tab. I'd approach it like this:
for that tab, have an overall UIViewController that can run things when the user switches to that tab
it sets up the master detail table views as appropriate.