Question

My problem is that I want to have a tab bar view with its children view controllers shown first. In the children view controllers, depending on what controls are clicked, I either want to A) drill down within the tab bar view (swiping away the child view controller) or B) drill down over the tab bar view (swiping away the tab bar view controller).

I’ve tried solving this problem by wrapping a navigation controller within the children view controllers (so I can drill down using method A) of the tab bar controller and then wrapping another navigation controller around the tab bar controller itself (so I can drill down using method B), hence the title. So it goes:
Window -> UINavigationController -> UITabBarController -> UINavigationController -> child view controller

The problem is that I end up with two navigation bars:

two navigation bars!! http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/240/problemc.png

Has anyone else had this problem, and if so, how did you get around it?
Thanks!

Answer 1

In this case, perhaps you can simply use a UITabBar and programmatically manage its state, without nesting a tab bar controller inside another controller.