Question

I would like for one tab in a UITabBarController to have a fixed position and the user can reorganize the other tabs however they like. I have the UITabBarController > UINavigationController > UITableViewController setup.

Is this possible?

UPDATE:

The following code, in applicationDidFinishLaunching, is what I’m using and it doesn’t work. I’m trying to get a reference to the SavedTableViewController, I think that’s the problem. Any ideas?

NSMutableArray *customizableVCs = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:tabBarController.customizableViewControllers];
    for (id controller in tabBarController.customizableViewControllers){
            if ([controller isKindOfClass:[SavedTableViewController class]]){
                NSLog(@"Removing Object");
                [customizableVCs removeObject:controller];
            }
    }
    tabBarController.customizableViewControllers = customizableVCs;

UPDATE 2:

This is the code that worked for me. I had to put the snippet below adding the tabBarController to the window.

[window addSubview:tabBarController.view];
    [self setTabOrderIfSaved];

    NSMutableArray *customizableViewControllers = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:tabBarController.customizableViewControllers];
    [customizableViewControllers removeObject:savedNavigationController];
    tabBarController.customizableViewControllers = customizableViewControllers;

Answer 1

Remove the view controller corresponding to that tab from the customizableViewControllers property of your tab bar controller. Assuming that you want fixedViewController to remain fixed:

NSMutableArray *customizableViewControllers = [NSMutableArray arrayWithArray:tabBarController.customizableViewControllers];
[customizableViewControllers removeObject:fixedViewController];
tabBarController.customizableViewControllers = customizableViewControllers;

Because customizableViewControllers is reinitialized when the viewControllers property is changed, you should do this after the rest of your tab bar controller’s state has been set up.