Question

I have put one global tabBarController in iphone app that I have been working on.
But in one of my screen I needed to put the local tabBar which is different from the global tabBarController.

I have done it in two ways:
1) Hiding the global tabBar by self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden = yes; and putting local tabBar in place of it in the view. But the frame of tabBar is showing blank white.
2) Tried by adding the local tabBar as subview of global tabBar which worked but after screen is unloaded its not removing the local tabBar though applying [localTabBar removeFromSuperView];

Thanks in advance..

Global tabBarController:
tabBarController          = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray    arrayWithObjects:ActivityTabnav,nav2,privateChatnav,ExploreTabnav,nav3,tempTabnav, nil];

localtabBar is a tabBar on view xib of viewController.
in vIewDidLoad >

 UIWindow* window = [[UIApplication sharedApplication] keyWindow];
 [window addSubview:self.tabBar];

in vIewDidUnLoad >

[self.tabBar removeFromSuperview];

Previously I tried to add self.tabBar to self.tabBarController.tabBar as a subView which persisted the local self.tabBar in other screens.

Thank you…

Answer 1

The cleanest way I’ve found to do this is to set the hidesBottomBarWhenPushed property of your view controller, then place it inside a UINavigationController (hiding the navigiationBar if you don’t need it). This will hide the UITabBarController's UITabBar without leaving a white space.

You’d then put the local UITabBar directly into the UIViewController's view;

Another possibility would be to hide the UITabBarController's UITabBar, then add the local UITabBar to as a subview of UITabBarController's view. Of course you’d have to remove from superview when needed.