Add tab bar & navigation bar in Window based application iPhone - iphone

Hi guys
I am new to iphone app development. I want to develop a application which contains tab bar ,navigation bar & middle part of view contains UIImageView.
When my application will launch it will show main view .On main view I want to add "Loading view " for connecting to server which contains text (Connecting.. & so on) & activity indicator, like this view pointed by red arrow =>
http://img10.imageshack.us/i/16467623.jpg/
How can I add this view?
My app contains 4 tabs on main view in which last tab is more.
I completed tab bar part using tab bar controller as rootViewController .
How to add navigation bar ? I want navigation bar for whole app.
I mean to say when i select first tab new view will appear ,select 2nd tab => new view & so on. I want navigation bar & back button for all tabs so that I can return to my main screen containing all 4 tabs .
Also i want to hide my tab bar when i select tab bar item & animated to new view.
Please help me guys. Any links to tutorial , code or video is more helpful...
Thanks in advance.

Try this video tutorial. It covers a lot and should get you on your way.
Pause it, replay some parts, whatever works.
Building an iPhone App Combining Tab Bar, Navigation and Tab O'REILLY

A good place to start is the View Controller Programming Guide and the section on Tab Bar Controllers. This is Apple documentation and the guide has step-by-step instructions in implementing different view controllers. You should also read the chapter on UINavigationController.

If you want to add a tab bar and a navigation bar simultaneously in a not tabbed view application, just create a UIViewController subclass, add a Tab Bar in the view, add its tab bar items and set a delegate to File´s Owner and a referencing outlet to File´s owner. For the last one, write in the .h:
#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>
#interface MyView : UIViewController{
IBOutlet UITabBar *tabBarController;
}
#end

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Not Displaying Complete View in UITabbarController with UINavigationController

In My Application using UINavigationcontroller and UITabbarcontroller Dynamically and adding views like
UINavigationController inside of UITabBarController issues
in this way . I am able to got both UITabbarController and UINavigationController. Both are works fine. But My issue is Here View Not displaying complete as show in XIB. For example i added a UIButton in XIB at the point (110,380). It wont display in IOS Device.
The Above image is My XIB here Button Below is not displaying in IOSDevice
Please any one help in this issue.
Thanks in advance.
Go to for Nib File , On right side in utility view go to attribute inspector.
Now Set Top bar : Navigation Bar
Bottom Bar : tab Bar
And then design your view .
In Interface Builder try to set bottom bar to Tab Bar.

No top navigation bar in a tab bar controller application

I'm pretty new in iphone programming and have stumbled upon this issue which I guess should be pretty basic stuff.
I am using a tab bar application created from a template in XCode IOS 5.1. It works fine and creates 3 screens in the storyboard (tab bar controller + + 2 descended views) but when I try adding a top bar to these 2 views there is a problem...
I do this by adding the top navigation bar in interface builder from object inspector for the tab bar controller. After ticking this option the top bar shows perfectly in my storyboard for all 3 screens (tabbarcontroller + 2 descended views) but after I run the project the top navigation bar is no longer there.
What am I missing here? Why is there no top bar?
If you want to show a navigation bar on two ViewControllers of your tab bar based application, then you can do as follows:
Delete the viewcontroller1, then drag ViewController into storyboard from library and select it and go to Editor\Embed In\Navigation Controller.
From the UITabBarController, click on tabbar and right click, select relationship and drag it to the navigation controller. (means add the UINavigationController as a tab).
Hope this helps!
follow as Nuzhat Zari to show navigation bar on viewcontrollers of your tabBar based application
self.tabBar.frame =CGRectMake(0,0,self.view.frame.size.width,50);
This will make Tab Bar to appear at the top of controller.

How to add Tabbarcontroller to existing view in xcode?

I am unable to add tabbarcontroller in my existing view in my app. I dont want a tab bar application but tabbar in oneof my view in application.Can someone please Help me
To show a view that has got a tab bar in it, you don't need to have a tab bar base application.
Simply create a UITabBarController and then add its view to your main view (as a subview or how ever it is ok for you). You can create the UITabBarController either in IB or programmatically.

iphone sdk: How do i hide the tabBar in my UITabBarController?

My application consists out of a tabbarcontroller and inside i got multiple navigationControllers. Now i want to hide the bottom bar of the tabbarcontroller from the start because the buttons on the bottom bar lead to features inside the application which are just not ready yet so i dont't want the user to see them. How do i do this?
Thanks in advance!
A couple of options:
Set hidesBottomBarWhenPushed=YES on one of the controllers in your navigation controller. I'm not sure if this works on the root view controller of a navigation controller.
Hide the tab bar items by changing UITabBarController.viewControllers. I'm not sure if it lets you have a tab bar with only one tab, but it ought to.
Set the tab bar controller's delegate (see UITabBarControllerDelegate). In – tabBarController:shouldSelectViewController:, return NO if it hasn't been implemented yet.

Tab Bar will no work as a subview of another view but works fine as a subview of window?

I am trying to make a program with three subviews after the title screen. Two of the views are just standard nib files with UIViewController subclassed to control them, and the third is a Tab Bar view. I can't seem to get the tab bar items to display though. I walked through the Tab bar chapter in "Beginning iPhone Development" which adds the Tab Bar Controller right off the bat as a subview of Window in the app delegate and that works fine. What I want to do though is load up my rootView controller after the third section was chosen from the title screen and then add a Tab Bar view to that. Every time I do this though I get a blank Tab Bar with no tab bar items.
Any help you can provide would be greatly appreciated seeing as I've been working at this for a few days now.
Thanks
You can't push a tab bar controller to a navigation controller, which I assume is what you're trying to do. However, you can use a plain UITabBar and implement your own view switching in a UIViewController subclass (rather than a UITabBarController). See this related question.