I have a working iPhone app with a UITabBarController. It all works fine. The app has more tabs than can be shown across the portrait width of the display, so we see 5 tabs in total (the last being the “more” tab). The thing is, we want to relegate some of the “less interesting” things to be behind the “more” tab. I know that if I had just 2 view controllers, then I’d see just 2 tabs, and so on until I exceeded 5 tabs.
How can we show just 4 tabs (3 plus a “more” tab), instead of 5?
My guess is: this is not possible by just setting an attribute (which would certainly be convenient!), since I cannot find anything in the docs, or here frankly, to suggest otherwise.
Short of implementing my own “more” tab, and supplying the tab bar controller with only 4 view controllers (the last being my own “more” controller), any tips, tricks, or hints are appreciated. Thanks!
Just wanted to wrap this up. In the end, I implemented my own “More” controller, and supplied the UITabBarController with just 4 view controllers, the last being my More controller.
The custom More controller is little more than a generic UITableViewController sub-class that I create when I create the UITabBarController’s main tabs and associated controllers. I then add row titles and corresponding UIViewControllers to an array in the More view controller. When that tab is visible and a row is tapped, I just push the appropriate view controller.
The whole effect looks totally “stock”, except I have 4 tabs instead of 5. It was less of a hassle than I thought it would be to implement, as well. Always a bonus.
Hope this helps someone down the line.