Question

So I’m attempting to deal with uitabbarcontroller and wanted to have a default tab be selected when the view loads.

I have tried setting the

@property (nonatomic) int selectedIndex;

however this just sets which viewcontroller is being shown, not the actual tabbar being selected

I also tried this line

[self tabBar].selectedItem = [[[self tabBar] items] objectAtIndex:0];

but it crashes as you are not allowed to mutate the tabbar of a tabbarcontroller

Any help with this?

Thanks

Answer 1

So, as discussed in the comments, following code should do what you want:

[self.tabBarController setSelectedIndex:desiredIndex];

Alternatively, you can use:

[self.tabBarController setSelectedViewController:desiredViewController];