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Custom UITabBarController for iOS. Provides MultiRowTabBar for more tabs.

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MultiRowUITabBar

Custom UITabBarController for iOS. Provides multiple rows of tab bar items on click of "More".

iOS provides "more" button when the number of tab items are more than 5 (8 for iPad). Once you go a level deep in the more section, we cant see all the available tab items.

This custom UITabBarController provides a elegent way of showing all the tab items in a multi row view, letting the user to switch between any screen any time.

Features

  • Universal device support (iPhone + iPad)
  • Multiple Storyboard support
  • Easily stylable
  • Nice set of configuration options
  • Lightweight, simple and readable code.

Demo

  1. Git clone or download the project.
  2. Go to Example directory and run pod install.
  3. Open the MultiRowUITabBar.xcworkspace in xCode.
  4. Run the xCode project

Installation

Manual Installation

  • Download the zip
  • Add the files under MultiRowTabBar into your project.
  • Extend your UITabBarController from MultiRowTabBarController

Cocoa pod installation

UIStyleKit is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:

pod "MultiRowUITabBar"

Usage

Basic Setup

Subclass your TabBarController with DSMultiRowTabBarController. Call [self setupTabBar] in viewDidLoad and override the following methods.

-(NSUInteger)numberOfMenuItems;
-(void)setMenuItem:(DSMenuItem *)menuItem forIndex:(NSUInteger)index;

-(UITabBarItem *)tabBarItemForIndex:(NSUInteger)index;
-(UIViewController *)viewControllerForIndex:(NSUInteger)index;