Tag: Tab bar

Customizing Tab Bar Controller Icons.

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Steven Lipton

One of the more perplexing parts of using tab bar controllers is customizing tabs. If you understand some of the properties of an image, You can do some major customization. Download the example file. If you open the main storyboard you’ll see three view… Continue Reading “Customizing Tab Bar Controller Icons.”

Category: GUI, iOS Development Weekly Tips, ios12, LinkedIn Learning / Lynda.com, Swift 4.0, Swift Programming, Tutorial, Xcode 10Tags: icon, image, swift, Tab bar, template, UITabBar, UITabBarController, UITabBarItem

Tab Bar Controllers in Xcode 8 Storyboards

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Steven Lipton

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In this lesson, we’ll take a look at tab bar controllers and how to add them in the storyboard. For more on implementing them completely in code see Swift Swift: Using Tab Bar Controllers in Swift. For more on data sharing once set up… Continue Reading “Tab Bar Controllers in Xcode 8 Storyboards”

Category: Auto Layout and Size Classes, ios8, Swift Programming, Swift Swift, TutorialTags: autolayout, iPhone Programming, more, swift programming, Tab bar, tab bar icon color, Tab Bar Icons, Tab bar items, Tab bar more, Xcode, xibs in swift

Swift Swift Tutorials: Passing Data in Tab Bar Controllers

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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[Updated for Swift 2.0/iOS9 9/21/15 SJL] While you can delegate between view controllers in tab bar controllers, it’s debatable if you want to. Tab bar controllers can break down MVC in cases. On one hand Apps with tab bar controllers have independent view controllers… Continue Reading “Swift Swift Tutorials: Passing Data in Tab Bar Controllers”

Category: ios8, Swift, Swift Swift, TutorialTags: Tab bar, tab bar delegates, tab bar pass data, tab bar share data

Tab Bar Controllers in Storyboards

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Steven Lipton

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[Updated to Swift 2.0/iOS9 9/21/15 SJL] While Navigation controllers often have the limelight when it comes to Xcode controllers, Tab Bar controllers are great for independent tasks in the same app or for different ways of working with the same model. In this lesson,… Continue Reading “Tab Bar Controllers in Storyboards”