Question

Is there a good UITabBarController example where it is NOT created in the appDelegate?

I would like to use a UITabBarController inside of a UIViewController, however dont know how to set the view outlet.

Answer 1

This is all very well documented here. It shouldn’t matter where the UITabBarController instance is created, UIApplicationDelegate or not. In a nutshell, Create all of your respective UIViewController’s and add them to an array. Then assign that array to your UITabBarController’s viewControllers property. Then you can simply do something like [window addSubview:myTabBarController.view].

I’m just copy/pasting from the documentation here:

You should never access the tab bar
view of a tab bar controller directly.
To configure the tabs of a tab bar
controller, you assign the view
controllers that provide the root view
for each tab to the viewControllers
property. The order in which you
specify the view controllers
determines the order in which they
appear in the tab bar. When setting
this property, you should also assign
a value to the selectedViewController
property to indicate which view
controller is selected initially. (You
can also select view controllers by
array index using the selectedIndex
property.) When you embed the tab bar
controller’s view (obtained using the
inherited view property) in your
application window, the tab bar
controller automatically selects that
view controller and displays its
contents, resizing them as needed to
fit the tab bar interface.