Question

I need to have a view which shows first before other views but doesn’t have a tab bar button.

Is there a way to do this ?

EDIT:
I don’t want to show it modally as i want to use to standard function which show other views and having to cater for different ways of showing the view would be messy.

Answer 1

You could add your tabBarController in your window only once you need it and then remove your view from it’s superview do discard it and free memory.

Something like:

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {    
    [window addSubview:viewController.view];
    [window makeKeyAndVisible];
}

- (void)showTabBarController {
    [window addSubview:tabBarController.view];
    [viewController.view removeFromSuperView];
    self.viewController = nil;
}