How to disable/enable a particular UITabBar Item, - ios

Question

I have 3 tabs in my UITabbarController, that I created in my Appdelegate.
When I open the app, I have made the selected tabbarItem the third tabbarItem.
The user can only select the UITabBarItem at Index 0, when he is logged in.
I tried every thing to restrict the user from going to TabBarItem_0 when he is at TabBarItem_2.
But nothing worked. I used
- (BOOL)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController shouldSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
{
}
But it's not working as I desired. I checked the stackoverflow and found almost the same question, where I found this delegate. But this is not working for me as desired. I googled, but couldn't find any solution other than stackoverflows links, which didn't help this time.
On the click of that disabled TabBar Item, I have to show a pop up. How can I implement that, too?

Answer 1

Try something like this,
- (BOOL)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController shouldSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController;
{
if (tabBarController.selectedIndex == 0) {
if(isUserLoggedIn)
return YES;
else
return NO;
}
return YES;
}
If this does not work then,
Add this after you create the bar bar in app delegate,
[[[[self.tabBarController tabBar]items]objectAtIndex:0]setEnabled:FALSE];
once you log in enable it again
[[[[self.tabBarController tabBar]items]objectAtIndex:0]setEnabled:TRUE];

Answer 2

Quick hack that i used to present a popup on top of the current view when tapped on a tab bar item.
In your TabBarViewController class, implement the UITabBarControllerDelegate and remember to set self.delegate = self.
After that
func tabBarController(tabBarController: UITabBarController, shouldSelectViewController viewController: UIViewController) -> Bool {
if viewController.title == "Unique_title" //set an unique title for the view controller in storyboard or the view controller class.
{
performSegueWithIdentifier("YourModalViewIdentifier", sender: nil)
return false
} else {
return true
}
}
That should help you display a modal view when tap is received on the uitabbaritem. I know using title as an unique identifier is bad practice, but just a quick solution to achieve what you want.
Hope that helps.

Answer 3

You can do this in your code
- (void)viewDidLoad {
...
[self checkLogin];
...
}
- (void)checkLogin {
if (!loggedIn) {
[[[[self.tabBarController tabBar]items]objectAtIndex:0]setEnabled:NO];
} else {
[[[[self.tabBarController tabBar]items]objectAtIndex:0]setEnabled:YES];
}
}
- (void)tapLogin {
// Do the login action
}
- (void)processLoginResult {
// Process the result of the login action
// If the result is success, set 'loggedIn = YES'
// Otherwise, set 'loggedIn = NO'
...
[self checkLogin];
...
}

Answer 4

If you want to do it with the Storyboard, simply selected the TabBarItem in the destination view controller scene and uncheck the Enabled box.

Answer 5

This is what I did in Swift 2.1:
self.tabBarController!.tabBar.items![0].enabled = false

Answer 6

Here is how you disable a tabbar item in Swift 3 and 4
tabBarController.tabBar.items![0].isEnabled = false