I'd like a new row of tabs just below the existing row. Is this possible in xcode?
I suppose it's possible but sounds like a really bad design choice. I would either use a "More..." tab in your tab bar or a UISegmentedControl.
You can't do it with the standard UITabBar. You would have to build your own solution with UIViews. I agree with Keller, its a bad design idea - I think it would use up too much screen space. Perhaps have a Table View with all the tabs as rows and drill down into your views instead?
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I'm trying to create something similar to the following:
You see the dates at the top just underneath the search bar? Is that a nested tab view as I'm guessing? Is there a way to do it with the default components or do I need to create a custom view?
I'm not looking for a coding answer per se. I just want to know if there's a standard way of achieving this before trying to implement my own solution.
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For future reference I found a library that does exactly this.
Apple's documentation states :
The tab bar interface displays tabs at the bottom of the window for selecting between the different modes and for displaying the views for that mode. This class is generally used as-is, but may also be subclassed.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uitabbarcontroller
So I would guess that it is a custom solution.
For iOS 7 and iOS 8, we're implementing these things that look like drop-downs, but each just launch a modal window.
What makes more sense, using 3 UIButtons, 3 UITableViews with 1 row, or something else? In the past, there would be more than one of these all lined up, so I would put them in a UITableView and set the accessoryView of the UITableViewCell. Using the cell was nice, but three UITableViews seem like overkill here and a maintenance hassel.
The closest post I found regarding this was one about using an UITableViewCell outside of UITableView
What would make the most sense is to follow the iOS design guidelines. Instead of trying to create custom dropdown menus (or worse: showing a drop down menu, but displaying a modal view when the user is expecting a drop down view), that UI could be replaced with 1 UITableView that has 3 UITableViewCells in it. The text on each cell would be the name of the setting to be changed and selecting the cell would push segue to the next page. This will give the app a uniform iOS UX; allowing users to know exactly how to use your app because it works similarly to other apps on their phone. Check out the Settings app on the simulator to see what I am describing.
I don't see any advantage to using a UITableView or a UITableViewCell. I think this is clearly a case for three UIButtons. You can set constraints to keep them nice and clean. One cool thing that might be worth investigating is using a unicode character for the downward arrow. That way you could have the tap feedback on the whole "thing" as you called it.
When I need to create sort of dropdown menus, I usually take advantages from UITableView, one above all is when you will need to add one or more selections in the dropdown you just need to change the data model.
UITableViewCells are easily customizable that means that you can create almost everything you want.
I think that your design doesn't adapt well to a mobile application, those kind of menu are more web style, with 3 buttons and a UIPickerView you can really improve the user experience and also adapt in a really easy way on the ipad embedding the picker in a UIPopoverController.
as i agree with #keithbhunter, but still if you want then may this links will help you.
http://code4app.net/ios/DXPopover/54741ca3e24741c56db03ca0
https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/kxmenu
https://www.cocoacontrols.com/controls/nidropdown
Is it possible to use tabs to act as a filter for a list view?
I know you can add new tabs by hooking them up to new view controllers, but I would ideally like to use the same view controller, but show different items based on which tab is selected.
Can anyone point me into the right direction?
I think you may want to use a UISegmentedControl instead. It looks kinda like a tabbar and of course you can use it to filter list results.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/UIKit/Reference/UISegmentedControl_Class/Reference/UISegmentedControl.html
I would not suggest using tab for that purpose.If the filtered results are to be shown in the same view controller you can use Segmented Control with various segments.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SegmentedControl/Articles/SegmentedControlCode.html
Can anyone tell me if this is a standard iOS controller; I see it often in many different apps. It behaves much like a segmented controller, in that you can select one option and that option "sticks" until you select another. But it also seems a bit different than the out-of-box segmented controller. Is it something else?
I've done a few of those with a row of simple UIButton instances
I want to put a uitabbar into a section in uitableview, I have hard time looking a way for it, since I just started doing XCODE in less than a month. Anyone there know the solution for it? Any help is appreciated, and if possible, could you share a link for the tutorial or examples as well. Thanx in advance.
You can't do it in this way. They both are different things but you can have UITableView inside the uitabbar view. But vica-versa is not allowed ...this is not feasible and also not proper as per apple's guideline. So, please make sure not to use in this way...rather go for some other alternative :
like put Custom UIToolBar in header of tableView , having look & feels like Tabbar.
You cannot put a tab bar into a tableview.
I you want to use a tab bar, use it as a sub view of a UIView.
The UITabBar is supposed to contain other views. So no, you cannot add it to your table view. To get the look and feel of the Groupon app, there are two things you could do:
1. Create a custom tableviecell as advised above.
2. Since the toolbar (which looks like a tabbar) is outside the actual table, you can have it as a separate view and reduce the size of the table to accommodate it. Or add the toolbar to the footer view of the table.