Adventures in Swift and iOS App Development
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 controllers. You may see Question marks in the image like this: …
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 in the storyboard, see Passing Data in Tab Bar controllers The …
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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 with completely separate functions, much like Apple's clock app. Though the …
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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, we’ll take a look at tab bar controllers and how to …
