iOS Swift can't re-show tabbar - swift

I have a tabbar controller in which there are two view controllers. One has navbar shown (VC1), one has navbar hidden (VC2). I push to VC2 using tabbar icon, then I navigate to VC3 from there via UIButton and now tabbar is hidden using
hidesbottombarwhenpushed = true
I then navigate BACK to VC1 using the following
dvc.tabBarController?.selectedIndex = 0
the problem is, no matter what I set to false for hidden, I cannt get the navbar or tabbar to reshow.
Can someone tell me the correct way to hide/show navbar/tabbar and programatically navigate froma view back to a home page tab with hiding/showing navbar/tabbar?

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iPhone: more navigation controller in tabbar in container view

I'm working on a iPhone app with storyboard.
I need to put a TabbarController in a containerView like this:
The red rectangle in the controller on the left is a view I need to show always in the app.
I put 6 item in the tabbar so the tabbar show the "more" item.
When I tap on the "more" item I can normally customize the tabbar, but when I tap on "done" button nothing happens: the customization sheet don't disappear and I can't tap on the other items in the tabbar.
If I use the tabbar not in the containerView alla works fine.
Any help?
Thanks in advance!
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Navigation bar object in xcode 5 not showing back button and has no functionality

I have been trying to properly setup a navigation bar in one of my View Controllers for an hour now and have not found any working solutions.
I control-clicked on a button on my app's initial view controller(1st VC) and dragged to another view controller(2nd VC) and selected "modal" as the action segue.
I then added a navigation bar item to my 2nd view controller.
When I run my app on my iPhone, I can tap on the button on my app's initial screen and it will take me to my 2nd VC, and the 2nd VC does display the navigation bar, but the navigation bar does not have the default iOS 7 back arrow to let me go back to the app's initial VC.
I was under the impression that this could be setup exactly like I did above and that the back button functionality would be included by default.
Am I completely lost? Do I need to further customize navigation bar programmatically or with a tick box in the attributes inspector? Is "modal" the wrong action segue option?
I basically just want to have navigation bars at the top of a couple of my VC's so that the user can easily get back to the app's initial screen.
Thanks for the help.
Since you are presenting your second screen (2nd VC) as MODAL from your first screen (1st VC), you will not see the back arrow button on navigation bar. Your understanding about back button works for Navigation view controllers (push segue). For MODAL you need to put a cancel button on second VC's Nav bar and put a dismiss action for that.

UIViewController in a UITabBarController without tab bar item

So I have this application where I have a view controller (which I want to appear first when the app starts) and a tab bar controller. I also have other navigation bar controllers that are in the tab bar controller. I want to place my view controller on top of the tab bar controller. Making the tab bar controller the parent of the view controller would be better though.
But take note, I do not want a tab bar item to represent the view controller and I want the tab bar to appear along with the view controller. I do not and would not want to use storyboards as much as possible. How can i achieve this?
I guess the simplest solution would be to use a screenshot of your tabBar and put it in your HomeViewController as a button. In this case you could use your HomeViewController as rootViewController and in the button action you set the TabBarController as the rootViewController.
Root = Home + Button
-->
Root = TabBar
Perhaps you need four buttons, if you want the correct tab to be selected.

Designing an Application with different ViewControllers

after reading a lot of tutorials and threads here on stackoverflow there is one basic question left in my head.
The structure of my App should be the following:
MainMenu - fullscreen without a navigation bar but 2 buttons (button1 and button2)
Page1 - should appear by pressing button1 and should have a navigation bar at the top with a "back"-button to get back to the MainMenu.
Page2 - should appear by pressing button2 without a navigation bar at the top. Page2 should be a UISplitView. There must be a back button somewhere.
(I think this is where the problem starts, a UISplitView can't be presented modally, can it?)
You should be able to add subpages to Page1.
So how can I do that? I don't need executable code but just a hint on how the structure of my app should be. For example where to add the navigation controller, how the MainMenu looks like.
Thanks in advance!
Are you trying to create an Application for iPad?
Your Application's UI sems inconsistent being First View the only view without navigation Bar.
You will be using standard navigation to navigate to page1 from home page. So you will be adding a navigation Controller with Home View Controller as a Root View COntroller with hidden navigation bar.
eg.
-(void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:...
{
HomeViewController * hvc = [[HomeViewController alloc]init];
UInavigationController * nvc = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:hvc];
nvc.navigationBar.hidden = YES;
[window addSubView:nvc.view];
}
Then on tap of first Button you will be pushing the Page1 View Controller
-(IBActtion)button1Pressed:(id)sender
{
Page1ViewCOntroller * p1vc = [[Page1ViewCOntroller alloc]init];
[self.navigationController pushViewCOntroller:p1vc animated:YES];
}
In viewWillAppear: method of Page1ViewController unhide the NavigationBar and hide it in the viewWillDisappear: method
Your Page 2 needs to be splitViewController.
Now about Split View, Apple says
The split view controller’s view should always be installed as the root view of your application window. You should never present a split view inside of a navigation or tab bar interface.
But as there is no "must" written in the above statement, and since its finally a View Controller in itselt, you should be able to add it on the window or another view.
Try to create a VIewController, with split VIew added on it, and like page1, push the View on the navigation Controller.

Tab bar navigation

I have made an application in which I have four tab bars. I have used the below code to go to the second view in a button's click method. It goes to the second view but the second view is not showing with tab bars. How can I fix this?
- (IBAction)Existinguser:(id)sender
{
ExistingUserViewController *existingUserViewController =
[[ExistingUserViewController alloc]
initWithNibName:#"ExistingUserViewController" bundle:nil];
[self presentModalViewController:existingUserViewController animated:YES];
[existingUserViewController release];
}
Presenting a view controller modally will show that view controller above all ther other UI elements (this includes the navigation bar and tab bar, but not the status bar).
If you want to show your "second view" as the view on the second tab, then you need to set the view controller you want to use as the second tab's view controller. That way when you press the second tab, the second view controller will be shown, and the second tab will be selected and visible.
I might be mistaken, but do you have a single tab bar with four tabs and you are looking for a way to change to the second tab? You can do this with the following code:
self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 1;
btw the code you attached to your question is displaying a new model view controller above the current view controller. This is the reason no tabbar is shown.
If you are trying to create a navigation based app using tabbar, in IB, change the tab's viewcontroller to UINavigationController. You can then use the UINavController methods to navigate between views. In case you don't want to show the navbar, just set that property in IB.
Here's a good example of how you can use tab bar with navbar