viewWillAppear in viewcontrollers of a tabbar

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In my tab-bar I have four viewcontrollers, and what happens in one can affect the view of the other, so I may need to reload some elements in the viewcontroller when it becomes visible. Normally I'd fix that by implementing viewWillAppear, but when I switch between the tabs, viewWillAppear does not seem to get called. How can I fix that, or what should I do instead?

Update: as a PS I should add that this is a tabbarcontroller in a navigationcontroller hierarchy

Cheers

Nik

I'm not sure it is same problem... but might worth to loot http://stackoverflow.com/questions/131062/iphone-viewwillappear-not-firing/8157562#8157562 — Sean, Nov 16 '11 at 19:40

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 13 '12 at 11:11

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You may use the tabbar controller delegate works like a charm

-(void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
{
    [viewController viewWillAppear:YES];

}

answered Jun 13 '12 at 11:11

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '17 at 02:49

And in case you find this question because you would like to update something in the UITabBarController itself, not the UIViewControllers of a UITabBarController, like the OP's question. For example, hiding or displaying a custom UITabBarButton. In Swift 3.0 overriding setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate of my UITabBarController class worked for me.

override func setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate() {

}

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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Please see my answer here

iPhone viewWillAppear not firing

edited May 23 '17 at 10:32

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answered Jul 26 '11 at 17:08

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score -1 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 03 '16 at 11:40

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viewWillAppear should only be used when the view appears, and not for updating it.

Use setNeedsDisplay on the viewController's view instead.

edited Feb 03 '16 at 11:40

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answered Jul 17 '10 at 15:52

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Where would I call setNeedsDisplay from? The problem is that I need a hook for when the user chooses a new viewcontroller from the tabbar – niklassaers Jul 17 '10 at 15:58
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Oh, sory, I mixed up things here a little bit. I'm not sure why the viewWillAppear is not getting called, but I know a way around it: Make some object a tabBarController delegate, and it will the send the message, that a new view was selected, and call view will appear from there. – tadejsv Jul 17 '10 at 18:23
Sounds like an interesting idea, I'll give that a try tomorrow :-) – niklassaers Jul 17 '10 at 19:35

viewWillAppear in viewcontrollers of a tabbar

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