#AKTabBarController

AKTabBarController is an adaptive and customizable tab bar for iOS.

##Features

• Portrait and Landscape mode tab bar.
• Ability to set the height of the tab bar.
• Ability to hide the tab bar when pushed.
• Ability to set the minimum height of the tab bar to allow display the title.
• Ability to hide the title in the tabs.
• When the height of the tab bar is too small, the title is not displayed.
• Only one image is needed for both selected and unselected states (style is added via CoreGraphics).
• Images are resized when needed and particularly in landscape mode.
• Animated state of the tabs with a nice cross fade animation.

##Usage

Creation and initialization of the tab bar

// Create and initialize the height of the tab bar to 50px.
self.tabBarController = [[AKTabBarController alloc] initWithTabBarHeight:50];

// Adding the view controllers to manage.
[self.tabBarController setViewControllers:[NSMutableArray arrayWithObjects:
                                              [[FirstViewController alloc] init],
                                              [[SecondViewController alloc] init],
                                              [[ThirdViewController alloc] init],
                                              [[FourthViewController alloc] init],nil]];  

Setting the title and image

(in each view controller)

// Setting the image of the tab.
- (NSString *)tabImageName
{
	return @"myImage";
}

// Setting the title of the tab.
- (NSString *)tabTitle
{
	return @"Tab";
}

Setting the minimum height to display the title

[self.tabBarController setMinimumHeightToDisplayTitle:50];

Hide the tab title

[self.tabBarController setTabTitleIsHidden:NO];

Hide the tab bar when pushed in an UINavigationController

When pushing a viewcontroller in the viewControllers stack of an UINavigationController it is possible to hide the tab bar. It works exactely like the original UITabBarController:

[viewController setHidesBottomBarWhenPushed:YES];

For further details see the Xcode example project.

##Requirements

• iOS >= 4.3
• ARC
• QuartzCore.framework

##Screenshots

###iPhone portrait

###iPhone landscape

###iPad portrait

###iPad landscape

##Todo

• Ability to set any background pattern.
• Support different styles (dark, light, etc).

##Credits

• Largely inspired by Brian Collins's BCTabBarController (for views imbrication).
• Icons used in the example project are designed by Tomas Gajar (@tomasgajar).

Contact

Ali Karagoz

• http://github.com/alikaragoz
• http://twitter.com/alikaragoz

License

AKTabBarController is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.