MagiTabBarController is a highly customizable TabBarController component, which is inherited from UITabBarController.
In real-world development, we may encounter the situation that customizing the UITabBar. For instance: change font style, add animation, use bigger item. However it's hard to do with UITabBarItem.
With MagiTabBarController, You can easily achieve these！
| - | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Default style | You can get system-like style by initializing the TabBar with MagiTabBarController directly. UITabBarController style: |
| 2 | Default style with "More" item | If the items are more than the maximum number of displays, there will be a "More" item. UITabBarController with "More": |
| 3 | Mix UITabBarItem and MagiTabBarItem | You can set any item as you want, including UITabBarItem and MagiTabBarItem. MagiTabBar and UITabBar mixed style: |
| 4 | UIKit attributes | MagiTabBarController is compatible with UITabBarController, UITabBar and UITabBarItem's most API attributes. You can migrate to MagiTabBarController without any modification of the origin code. Compatible with UITabBarController's selectedIndex: |
| 5 | Any nesting with UINavigationController | Developing withUITabBarController, there are two common ways to handle layers: First : ├── UITabBarController └──── UINavigationController └────── UIViewController └──────── SubviewControllers Second : ├── UINavigationController └──── UITabBarController └────── UIViewController └──────── SubviewControllers In the first case, need to set hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true when pushing subViews. The second is not. In MagiTabBarController, add Container views to UITabBar to be compatible with these two ways。 |
| 6 | Customizable style | With MagiTabBarController, you can： 1. Customize selected item's color and style: |
| 7 | Customizable item's size Customizable click event | You can easily customize item's size using MagiTabBarController. When the button's frame is larger than TabBar, through the use of HitTest to achieve making outer TabBar area click valid. In addition, MagiTabBarController can customize click event, and through a block to callback super-layer to handle. With big item in the middle of TabBar: |
| 8 | Default notification style | You can get system-like notification style by initializing the TabBar with MagiTabBarController directly. UITabBarController notification style: |
| 9 | Customizable notification style | With MagiTabBarController, you can： 1. Customize notification animation: |
| 10 | Lottie | Through customizing ContentView, you are able to add Lottie's LAAnimationView to Item(s) |
- Xcode 8 or later
- iOS 8.0 or later
- ARC
- Swift 3 or later
You can download and build MagiTabBarControllerExample project, and you will find more examples to use MagiTabBarController, and also more examples to customize UITabBar。
pod "MagiTabBarController"git clone https://github.com/AnRanScheme/MagiTabBarController.git
open MagiTabBarController- The Containers' layout is purely based on code，using Autolayout will be better.
- When there is "More", if edit it will occurs problem.
- Partial UITabBarItem attributes are not bridge to MagiTabBarItem.
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