Hide the tab bar in a tab bar application

Question

I have created a new project from the template:

IPhoneOS>Application>Tab Bar Application.

I get two tabs.

How can I make the second become a full screen hiding the tab bar and even the status bar?

I tried to check the "Wants Full screen" - but it didn't help.

(Much less important... When I do get a full screen I do I get back?)

Please give me a simple code/guidelines or a reference to them, cause I'm a beginner - and Me and the compiler got too many issues to make things worse

Thanks Asaf

http://stackoverflow.com/a/9141766/91458 – boliva Feb 04 '12 at 15:03 — boliva, Feb 04 '12 at 15:03

score 37 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 15 '10 at 05:41

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To hide the tab bar you can use hidesBottomBarWhenPushed. For instance:

MyController *myController = [[MyController alloc]init]; 
myController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;
[self.navigationController pushViewController:myController animated:YES];
[myController release];

To hide the status bar you can use:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

To hide the nav bar you can use:

self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;

answered Jul 15 '10 at 05:41

RichardCase

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myController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES; works when I move from a table view to the view... Is it possible to load the first view (of the tab bar) without showing the bar... where do I put the code? – Asaf Jul 15 '10 at 07:16

score 20 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 25 '13 at 09:42

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You can just use:

//Navigation bar:
self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden = YES;

//Statusbar:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];

//Tabbar:
self.tabBarController.tabBar.hidden = YES;

answered Jan 25 '13 at 09:42

RdPC

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In case you're using tabbar with navigation controller `hidesBottomBarWhenPushed` will not work, but `tabBarController.tabBar.hidden` will do. – Ratata Tata Jan 12 '15 at 18:15
I'm having trouble hiding the bottom bar when using RBStoryboardLink. Neither approach seems to work :( – fatuhoku Feb 12 '15 at 16:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 15 '10 at 05:39

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Have you checked Modal View Controllers out?

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/featuredarticles/ViewControllerPGforiPhoneOS/ModalViewControllers/ModalViewControllers.html

Try the presentModalViewController:animated: method on your navigationController (instead of pushing a view controller)

[self.navigationController presentModalViewController:foo animated:YES];

answered Jul 15 '10 at 05:39

jmont

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I'm building a simple game at the main view and the setting grouped in the rest of the tab bar ... It's really hard for me to understand the navigation here... so building a tab bar in a modal view... if possible... seems too hard at the moment thanks – Asaf Jul 15 '10 at 07:20

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 06 '11 at 18:02

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Another way to accomplish this is by making the UITabBarController the rootViewController of a UINavigationController. Then when you pushViewControllerAnimated: the tab bar will slide away with the root view controller.

answered Aug 06 '11 at 18:02

Josh

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