iOS TabbarViewController hide the tab bar

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I have a viewcontroller that it implement UITabbarViewController, and I want to hide the tab bar and override it by myself,

self.tabBar.hidden = YES;

the tab bar disappeared BUT there is a blank area(the blue one) at the bottom of the view. I dont want the blank area , how can I fix this? Thank you.

edit: the blue area is:

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor];

Please check http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1982172/iphone-is-it-possible-to-hide-the-tabbar/29619468#29619468 — ChintaN -Maddy- Ramani, Apr 14 '15 at 05:01

redent84 · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-31T16:14:55.057

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We've done exactly the same in our application. To hide the default TabBar, simply override the hidesBottomBarWhenPushed method in your parent view controller (or in every view controller in your App)

#pragma mark - Overriden UIViewController methods
- (BOOL)hidesBottomBarWhenPushed {
    return YES;
}

EDIT: This value can also be set from Storyboard:

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edited Jan 31 '14 at 16:14

answered Mar 08 '13 at 15:07

redent84

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Set it in storyboard if you can. I did it in the viewcontroller but then when pressing the back button, tab bar was still hidden. Tried to do the reverse code and bring it back but no luck. – levibostian Aug 01 '15 at 00:11
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I tried this, didn't work. Neither the code version nor the Storyboard version. I set it for every view controller in my app (since it's not 100% clear which view controller I'm supposed to add it to). Zero effect. My tab bar controller is embedded in a Container, which is in a View Controller that is itself embedded in a Container in another view controller. This nesting may be the source of the problem. There is only one TabBar controller in my app. – Bill Patterson Aug 29 '15 at 16:55
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@BillPatterson this only works for view controllers embedded in a `UINavigationController`. You will have `UITabViewController` -> `UINavigationController` -> 'MyViewController'. And you set the `hidesBottomBarWhenPushed` to `YES` in MyViewController – redent84 Aug 30 '15 at 14:15

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 24 '17 at 22:33

My UITabBarController is housed within a container view. Checking "Hide Bottom Bar on Push" was not working for me. Instead I created a subclass of the tab bar controller and hid the tab bar programmatically.

class FooTabBar: UITabBarController {
  override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {
    super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()
    self.tabBar.isHidden = true
  }
}

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 08 '13 at 14:27

I don't think there's an easy way to fix this because UITabbarViewController is probably your super view and all "inner" views' height = screenHeight - tabBarHeight - navBarHeight.

Maybe you can try to resize your inner view controller manually but then I think you might have problems with Apple's AppStore submission process, because I think this violates general iOS user experience.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 28 '15 at 10:20

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And this is how you'd do the override (UIViewController) in Swift:

override var hidesBottomBarWhenPushed: Bool {
    get { return true }
    set { super.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = newValue }
}

answered Aug 28 '15 at 10:20

Markus Rautopuro

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