UINavigation with UITabbar not working - ios

Question

I'm trying to change views within an app I am editing the code for. But the navigation bar doesn't seem to update in specific instances when presenting a new viewcontroller. Right now the behavior looks like this:
I navigate to a tableviewcontroller by clicking on a tab in the tabbar,
then I navigate to a viewcontroller from this tableviewcontroller using:
settingsController = [SettingsController create];
[self.navigationController pushViewController: settingsController animated: YES];
which I believe calls this code:
+(id)create
{
SettingsController*settings = [[SettingsController alloc] init];
NSBundle*bundle = [NSBundle bundleForClass: [SettingsController class]];
[bundle loadNibNamed: #"SettingsController" owner: settings options: NULL];
settings.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 411);
settings.title = #"Settings";
return settings;
}
Then from there I navigate to another view controller using:
SearchViewController*searchView;
searchView = [[SearchViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"SearchView" bundle: [NSBundle mainBundle]];
[self presentViewController:searchView animated:YES completion:nil];
and this is where the behavior starts getting buggy, the navigation bar doesnt update to the change in the view controller. I didn't write this code but it has been giving me a headache trying to clean it up.

Answer 1

If you are using a navigationController then you shouldn't call
[self presentViewController:searchView animated:YES completion:nil];.
You should use
[self.navigationController pushViewController:searchView animated:YES];

Answer 2

Also, it would be better to use the standard in-built function to initialize a new view controller.
SettingsController*settings = [[SettingsController alloc] initWithNibName:#"SettingsController" bundle:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:settings animated:YES];
and then use the default method in the view controller.
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
if (self) {
self.title = #"Settings";
//other view changes.
}
return self;
}

Answer 3

See this example for the way of initializing tabbarcontroller with navigation controller
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
UIViewController *viewController1, *viewController2,*viewController3;
viewController1 = [[ViewController alloc] init];
viewController2 = [[FormStatusViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"FormStatusViewController" bundle:nil];
viewController3 = [[DocumentsViewController alloc] init];
UINavigationController *nav = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController1];
UINavigationController *nav1 =[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController2];
UINavigationController *nav2 =[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:viewController3];
nav.navigationBarHidden=YES;
nav1.navigationBarHidden=YES;
nav2.navigationBarHidden=YES;
NSArray *viewsArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:nav,nav1,nav2, nil];
self.formTabBar= [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
[self.formTabBar setViewControllers:viewsArray];
UITabBar *tabBar = self.formTabBar.tabBar;
UITabBarItem *tabBarItem1 = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:0];
UITabBarItem *tabBarItem2 = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:1];
UITabBarItem *tabBarItem3 = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:2];
tabBarItem1.title = #"FORM";
tabBarItem2.title = #"STATUS";
tabBarItem3.title = #"DOCUMENTS";
UIImage *tabBackground = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"tab_bg.png"]
resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0)];
[[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:tabBackground];
if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] < 7) {
[tabBarItem1 setFinishedSelectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"form.png"] withFinishedUnselectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"form_h.png"]];
[tabBarItem2 setFinishedSelectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"status.png"] withFinishedUnselectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"status_h.png"]];
[tabBarItem3 setFinishedSelectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"documents.png"] withFinishedUnselectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"documents_h.png"]];
} else {
tabBarItem1.selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"form_h.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal ];
tabBarItem1.image = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"form.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal ];
tabBarItem2.selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"status_h.png"]imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal ];
tabBarItem2.image = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"status.png"]imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal ];
tabBarItem3.selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"documents_h.png"]imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal ];
tabBarItem3.image = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"documents.png"]imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal ];
}
[[UITabBar appearance] setSelectionIndicatorImage:
[UIImage imageNamed:#"tab_select_indicator.png"]];
[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,
nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
[UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,
nil] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];
self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:[[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds]];
self.window.rootViewController = self.formTabBar;
[self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
return YES;
}
Now in your view controller suppose the firstviewcontroller in first tab you want to navigate to another view controller in that tab then use below code
SearchViewcontroller *searchView =[[SearchViewcontroller alloc]init];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:searchView animated:YES];