make UITabBar without adding in appDelegate file - iphone

Question

I am making an application which will have 3 pages
Login Page - first page after the app loads
My First Page- when user successfully logs in then he comes into this page.This page
contains a UITabBar with two UITabBarItems. The first one is connected to
My firstPage
and the other one to My Second Page.
My Second Page - this is another UIViewController.
I have made the login page but I am unable to find the solution to UITabBar adding in My First Page
Please help me out

Answer 1

Define
AppDelegate.h
#property (strong, nonatomic) UITabBarController *tabBarController;
in AppDelegate.m
didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
self.tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
self.tabBarController.delegate=self;
self.tabBarController.selectedIndex=0;
self.tabBarController.delegate=self;
- (BOOL)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController shouldSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController{
return YES;
}
now when you get success login write below code in that method
AppDelegate *delegate = (AppDelegate *)[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate];
UIViewController *viewController1 = [[FirstViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"FirstViewController" bundle:nil];
UIViewController *viewController2 = [[SecondViewController alloc] initWithNibName:#"SecondViewController" bundle:nil];
delegate.tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
delegate.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0;
delegate.tabBarController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:viewController1, viewController2, nil];
delegate.tabBarController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleCoverVertical;
[self.navigationController pushViewController:delegate.tabBarController animated:YES];

Answer 2

Try this out,
suppose this is LoginViewController.m
-(IBAction)loginButtonClicked:(id)sender
{
[self createTabBarView];
}
//Create TabBar View here
-(void)createTabBarView
{
NSMutableArray *tabItems = [NSMutableArray array];
UIViewController *firstViewController = [[FirstViewController alloc] init];;
firstViewController = #"First View";
firstViewController = [[UITabBarItem alloc]initWithTabBarSystemItem:UITabBarSystemItemContacts tag:0];
[tabItems addObject:firstViewController];
UIViewController *secondViewController = [[SecondViewController alloc] init];;
secondViewController = #"Second View";
secondViewController = [[UITabBarItem alloc]initWithTabBarSystemItem:UITabBarSystemItemContacts tag:1];
[tabItems addObject:secondViewController];
self.tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc]init];
self.tabBarController.viewControllers = tabItems;
self.tabBarController.modalTransitionStyle = UIModalTransitionStyleFlipHorizontal;
[self presentModalViewController:tabBarController animated:YES];
}
Thanks,
Nikhil.

Answer 3

Are you using interface builder?
From my point of view, I'd rather like to use programmatic way to implement it.
//In the appDidFinishLaunch method
BOOL loggedIn = [[NSUserDefault standDefault]boolForKey:"userlogin"];
if(loggedIn)
{
//Setup your UITabbarViewController
}
else
{
//Setup your loginView Controller
}
After login in LogInViewController
- (void)didLogin
{
YourAppDelegate *delegate = [UIApplication shareApplication].delegate;
[delegate.window addSubView:self.tabBarViewController.view];
[delegate.window removeSubView:self.view]
//Other Config
}

Answer 4

You should create Tabbar at place where you can identify that login is successfully done. This method should be part of your loginViewController.
Create a function like below to create a Tabbar and present it over loginController.
-(void) createTabBarController
{
UITabBarController *tabBar = [[UITabBarController alloc]init];
UIViewController *firstViewController = [[[UIViewController alloc] init]autorelease];
UINavigationController *firstNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:firstViewController];
firstNavController.tabBarItem.title=#"First Controller";
firstNavController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"first.png"];
UIViewController *secondViewController = [[[UIViewController alloc] init]autorelease];
UINavigationController *secondNavController = [[UINavigationController alloc]initWithRootViewController:secondViewController];
secondNavController.tabBarItem.title=#"First Controller";
secondNavController.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"first.png"];
[tabBar setViewControllers:[NSArray arrayWithObject:firstNavController,secondNavController,nil]];
[firstNavController release];
[secondNavController release];
[self presentModalViewController: tabBar];
[tabBar release];
}