An elegant revision to the TabBar on iOS. MinimalTabBar gets it's name by hiding once you have selected an item, leaving your UIViewControllers uncluttered.

Gestures

The MinimalTabBar has a number of gestures to allow unique user-interaction. While minimized the user has three seperate gestures to control navigation.

• Tap Opens the MinimalTabBar
• Swipe Slides the user between adjacent UIViewControllers
• Long Press Gives the user a complete look at the app

Implementation

Implementation mirrors Apple's UITabBar very closely. Assuming your UIViewControllers have UITabBar items it's only two steps.

JDMinimalTabBarController *minimalTabBarViewController = [[JDMinimalTabBarController alloc] init];

Once you've created your MinimalTabBar assigning it UIViewControllers is easy. Use the UITabBar item's name, image, and selectedImage to control the look of each tab.

[minimalTabBarViewController setViewControllers:@[sectionOneVC, sectionTwoVC, sectionThreeVC, sectionFourVC, sectionFiveVC]];

MinimalTabBarController's MinimalBar you can set the following attributes:

• @property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor* defaultTintColor;
• @property (nonatomic, strong) UIColor* selectedTintColor;
• @property (nonatomic) BOOL showTitles;
• @property (nonatomic) BOOL hidesTitlesWhenSelected;

You can also provide the MinimalBar with a background color if you so wish

Notes

If you have any comments or run into any errors, please let me know as I am making changes frequently.

Usage

To run the example project, clone the repo, and run pod install from the Example directory first.

Installation

Author

jamesdunay [at] gmail

License

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