How to load another View Controller on Tabbed application Without losing the tab

Question

I have a Tab Bar application coded in Objective-c. One of the tabviews I have is a TableView. What I'm trying to do is, when a cell of this TableView is selected, the app takes the user to another view, but this view isn't on the tab menu, and I don't want to lose the tab menu when this view appears.

Is it possible to do it? How? Couldn't find much on the web.

you need to use container view! or build your own tab bar controller ! — Teja Nandamuri, May 31 '16 at 13:22
I would like to show a UIViewController but don't want to lose the tabbar — Fred Novack, May 31 '16 at 13:23
If you put the view controller with the table view into a navigation controller, you can push a controller with the new view. — Phillip Mills, May 31 '16 at 13:26
2 options either push a new UiViewcontroller on top assuming that you have a UINavigationController in that Tab. or present a Modal View Controller — Jatin, May 31 '16 at 13:27

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 31 '16 at 13:28

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Just embed navigation controller to that tab's viewcontroller which have tableview.

so your viewhierarchy should be like tabbar controller - navigation controller - viewcontroller (tab) - detailviewcontroller

you can embed navigation controller by selecting viewcontroller, then from menu select editor then embed in then navigation controller.

Hope this will help :)

answered May 31 '16 at 13:28

Ketan Parmar

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How do I link the viewcontroller(tab) to detailviewcontroller? I clicked on the viewcontroller(tab) held "control"dragged to the detailviewcontroller and selected (show detail) but it replaced the entire tabbar – Fred Novack May 31 '16 at 13:42
I did it! instead of selecting "show detail"you have to select "show"" Thanks for the help! – Fred Novack May 31 '16 at 13:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

If you are having the single View Controller to show then you can try doing this by adding the new view controller's view as subView to the current view controller's view

Eg:

newVC.view.frame = self.view.frame;
newVC.view.frame.size.height = self.view.frame.size.height - HEIGHT_OF_TAB_BAR;
[self.view addSubview:newVC.view];

If there are more View Controller's that are adding further then using the navigation controller under tab bar controller will also work.

Refer: How to implement tab bar controller with navigation controller in right way

How to load another View Controller on Tabbed application Without losing the tab

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