#AKTabBarController
AKTabBarController is an adaptive and customizable tab bar for iOS.
##Features
- Portrait and Landscape mode tab bar.
- Ability to set the height of the tab bar.
- Ability to hide the tab bar when pushed.
- Ability to set the minimum height of the tab bar to allow display the title.
- Ability to hide the title in the tabs.
- When the height of the tab bar is too small, the title is not displayed.
- Only one image is needed for both selected and unselected states (style is added via CoreGraphics).
- Icons are resized when needed and particularly in landscape mode.
- Animated state of the tabs with a nice cross fade animation.
- Support pre-rendered images (no glossy effect will be applied).
- Set a custom font for tab titles.
###iPhone portrait 
##Usage
###Installation Add the dependency to your Podfile:
platform :ios pod 'AKTabBarController'Run pod install to install the dependencies.
Next, import the header file wherever you want to use the tab bar controller:
#import "AKTabBarController.h"// Create and initialize the height of the tab bar to 50px. _tabBarController = [[AKTabBarController alloc] initWithTabBarHeight:50]; // Adding the view controllers to manage. [_tabBarController setViewControllers:@[[[FirstViewController alloc] init], [[SecondViewController alloc] init], [[ThirdViewController alloc] init], [[FourthViewController alloc] init]]]]; (in each view controller)
// Setting the image of the tab. - (NSString *)tabImageName { return @"myImage"; } // Setting the title of the tab. - (NSString *)tabTitle { return @"Tab"; }// Ensure to import AKTabController and the category for UIViewController #import <AKTabBarController.h> #import <AKTabBarController/UIViewController+AKTabBarController.h> // It's now possible to access the current AKTabBarController instance. - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; [self.akTabBarController setTextColor:[UIColor redColor]]; }Note: self.akTabBarController returns nil on devices running iOS < 5.0.
[_tabBarController setMinimumHeightToDisplayTitle:50];[_tabBarController setTabTitleIsHidden:NO];When pushing a viewcontroller in the viewControllers stack of an UINavigationController it is possible to hide the tab bar. It works exactely like the original UITabBarController:
[viewController setHidesBottomBarWhenPushed:YES];// Tab background Image [_tabBarController setBackgroundImageName:@"noise-dark-gray.png"]; [_tabBarController setSelectedBackgroundImageName:@"noise-dark-blue.png"]; // Tabs top emboss Color [_tabBarController setTabEdgeColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.2 green:0.2 blue:0.2 alpha:0.8]]; // Tabs colors settings [_tabBarController setTabColors:@[[UIColor colorWithRed:0.1 green:0.1 blue:0.1 alpha:0.0], [UIColor colorWithRed:0.6 green:0.6 blue:0.6 alpha:1.0]]]; // MAX 2 Colors [_tabBarController setSelectedTabColors:@[[UIColor colorWithRed:0.7 green:0.7 blue:0.7 alpha:1.0], [UIColor colorWithRed:1.0 green:1.0 blue:1.0 alpha:0.0]]]; // MAX 2 Colors // Tab stroke Color [_tabBarController setTabStrokeColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0 green:0 blue:0 alpha:0]]; // Icons color settings [_tabBarController setIconColors:@[[UIColor colorWithRed:174.0/255.0 green:174.0/255.0 blue:174.0/255.0 alpha:1], [UIColor colorWithRed:228.0/255.0 green:228.0/255.0 blue:228.0/255.0 alpha:1]]]; // MAX 2 Colors [_tabBarController setSelectedIconColors:@[[UIColor colorWithRed:174.0/255.0 green:174.0/255.0 blue:174.0/255.0 alpha:1], [UIColor colorWithRed:228.0/255.0 green:228.0/255.0 blue:228.0/255.0 alpha:1]]]; // MAX 2 Colors // Text color [_tabBarController setTextColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:157.0/255.0 green:157.0/255.0 blue:157.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]]; [_tabBarController setSelectedTextColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:228.0/255.0 green:228.0/255.0 blue:228.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]]; // Text font [_tabBarController setTextFont:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Chalkduster" size:14]]; // Hide / Show glossy effect on tab icons [_tabBarController setIconGlossyIsHidden:YES]; // Enable / Disable pre-rendered image mode [_tabBarController setTabIconPreRendered:YES];###See below the result of the customization:
For further details see the Xcode example project.
##Requirements
- iOS >= 4.3
- ARC
- QuartzCore.framework
##Screenshots
###iPhone landscape 
###iPad portrait 
###iPad landscape 
##Credits
- Largely inspired by Brian Collins's BCTabBarController (for views imbrication).
- Icons used in the example project are designed by Tomas Gajar (@tomasgajar).
Ali Karagoz
AKTabBarController is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.