Change tabbarController's tab programmatically

Question

I want to change tab through code with animation. Exact scenario is that there are 2 tabs with below hierarchy.

First tab
  - Navigation controller
    - Login controller
    - Some other controller
Second tab
  - Navigation controller
    - Screen with Logout button

Now, if user presses logout, I need to display login screen. For that I need to switch tab to FirstTab and then popToRootViewController.

So what I am doing is on logout button press I send NSNotification to LoginController which in turn executes below method.

- (void)logoutButtonPressed
{
    // Go to root controller in navigation controller of first tab.
    [self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES];

    // Change tab to "First tab". This happens sharply without animation.
    // I want to animate this change.
    self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0;
}

I tried below method to animate. But this animates only when tab is changed by user but not when changed through code.

- (BOOL)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController shouldSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
{
    NSArray *tabViewControllers = tabBarController.viewControllers;
    UIView * fromView = tabBarController.selectedViewController.view;
    UIView * toView = viewController.view;
    if (fromView == toView)
        return false;
    NSUInteger fromIndex = [tabViewControllers indexOfObject:tabBarController.selectedViewController];
    NSUInteger toIndex = [tabViewControllers indexOfObject:viewController];

    [UIView transitionFromView:fromView
                        toView:toView
                      duration:0.3
                       options: toIndex > fromIndex ? UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft : UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight
                    completion:^(BOOL finished) {
                        if (finished) {
                            tabBarController.selectedIndex = toIndex;
                        }
                    }];

    return true;
}

Answer 1

I'm Sorry Geek, I was disconnected on weekend.

The solution that I took in my app was make a method which call to the popToRootViewControllerAnimated: and then send a performSelector: message to self passing that created method as a selector:

- (void)delayPopAnimation {
    [self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES];
}

// in logoutButtonPressed make some like this
self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0;
[self performSelector:@selector(delayPopAnimation) withObject:nil afterDelay:1.5];

Maybe it is not the best and well performed solution, but it's an option because do the work. It will select the tab and after a 1.5 second delay, the animation will take place. Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Below is the code I used to animate screens with slide in-out effect. Found on SO question.

- (void)logoutButtonPressed
{
    [self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:NO];

    [self animateTransitionBetweenControllers];
}

// Animates view transition that happens from screen with logout button to login screen
- (void)animateTransitionBetweenControllers
{
    // Get the views to animate.
    UIView * fromView = self.tabBarController.selectedViewController.view;
    UIView * toView = [[self.tabBarController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:0] view];

    // Get the size of the view.
    CGRect viewSize = fromView.frame;

    // Add the view that we want to display to superview of currently visible view.
    [fromView.superview addSubview:toView];

    // Position it off screen. We will animate it left to right slide.
    toView.frame = CGRectMake(-self.view.bounds.size.width, viewSize.origin.y, toView.bounds.size.width, viewSize.size.height);

    // Animate transition
    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.3 delay:0.0 options:UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionNone animations:^{
        // Animate the views with slide.
        fromView.frame = CGRectMake(self.view.bounds.size.width, viewSize.origin.y, toView.bounds.size.width, viewSize.size.height);
        toView.frame = CGRectMake(0, viewSize.origin.y, toView.bounds.size.width, viewSize.size.height);
    } completion:^(BOOL finished) {
        if (finished)
        {
            // Remove the old view.
            [fromView removeFromSuperview];
            self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0;
        }
    }];
}

Answer 3

try this

- (void)logoutButtonPressed
{
    // Go to root controller in navigation controller of first tab.
    [self.navigationController popToRootViewControllerAnimated:YES];


    NSArray *tabViewControllers = self.tabBarController.viewControllers;


    UIView * fromView = self.tabBarController.selectedViewController.view;


    UIView * toView = self.view;

    NSUInteger fromIndex = [tabViewControllers indexOfObject:self.tabBarController.selectedViewController];


    NSUInteger toIndex = [tabViewControllers indexOfObject:self];

    [UIView transitionFromView:fromView
                        toView:toView
                      duration:0.3
                       options: toIndex > fromIndex ? UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromLeft : UIViewAnimationOptionTransitionFlipFromRight
                    completion:^(BOOL finished) {

                            self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 0;

                    }];


}