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tala9999
tala9999

Reputation: 1719

Select a tab bar item programmatically (not using UITabBarController)

I have a view derived from UIViewControler (not UITabBarController). In this view I added a tab bar with several tab bar items. I used the UITabBarDelegate to allow the view to do something when users tap on each tab bar item.

class MyViewController: UIViewController, UITabBarDelegate {

    func tabBar(tabBar: UITabBar, didSelectItem item: UITabBarItem!) {
        // do something
    }
}

My question is how we can programmatically select the first tab bar item when the view is first loaded? Note that I would want the first tab item to be in "active" state also.

Again, I'm not using UITabBarController

Thanks

Upvotes: 27

Views: 41142

Answers (6)

Anisetti Nagendra
Anisetti Nagendra

Reputation: 341

In Xamarin.ios, we can use like this mainTabBarController.selectedIndex=3;

Upvotes: -1

Monir Khlaf
Monir Khlaf

Reputation: 567

if you inside UITabBarController you can useself.selectedIndex = // set target index

Upvotes: 5

Aliens
Aliens

Reputation: 1004

Swift 3: 

tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0 // (or any other existing index)

Upvotes: 20

Andres Ortiz
Andres Ortiz

Reputation: 5

Before select active tab bar item on viewDidLoad event

[self.tabBar setSelectedItem: [self.tabBar.items objectAtIndex:0]];

Upvotes: 0

Ravi Kumar
Ravi Kumar

Reputation: 1366

In swift if tabbar is used not tabbarcontroller set default select

var tabbar:UITabBar?//if declare like this

tabbar!.selectedItem = self.tabbar!.items![0] as? UITabBarItem

or

let tabbar = UITabBar()//if declare and initilize like this

tabbar.selectedItem = self.tabbar.items![0] as? UITabBarItem

Upvotes: 6

Foster Bass
Foster Bass

Reputation: 908

[tabBar setSelectedItem: [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:0]];

Which in swift, I think would be:

tabBar.selectedItem = tabBar.items![0] as UITabBarItem

Upvotes: 49

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