Last week my designer gave me a screen for the app to design. The app design was having custom floating tab bar on it. I searched a lot to achieve the design, meanwhile I found a way to achieve my needs. Here is the original blog I found for my needs.
Following will guide you how I implemented.
Step1: Create a single view application on xCode for iOS. Name it CustomTabBar or from your choice.
Step2: Rename the default ViewController To TabViewController.
Change the Class name of ViewController on Storyboard as shown in picture below.
Step3: Add UIView at the footer of the view with given constraints.
Step4: Add the buttons in TabView and embed it in UIStackView, give the constraint to the stackView and change its distribution to Fill Equally as shown in picture below.
Setp5: Name all the button according to the tabs of your choice and connect their action to event named tabChanged.(We will create a action on TabViewController.swift file) Create four ViewControllers to connect them with each buttons on tabView.
Change buttons tag from 0 to 3 in a sequence.
Step6: Code for FirstViewController.swift and TabViewController.swift
You can download sample code here.
Note: This tutorial doesn’t use views or memory as effective as standard iOS tab bar, mainly not applicable for production on its current state. Use it with cautious, customising original tab bar isn’t that hard, so use it wisely.
