How to: Save order of tabs when customizing tabs in UITabBarController

Question

I am having problems finding any other information than the docs for how to save the tab order for my UITabBarController, so that the user\'s customization is saved for next

Answer 1

Simplified Rickard Elimää answer even further. "Swift" solution to saving and loading Customized ViewControllers using the delegate function of tabBarController CustomizingViewControllers.

This is how I did it.

class TabBarController: UITabBarController, UITabBarControllerDelegate {

    let kOrder = "customOrder"

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        self.delegate = self

        loadCustomizedViews()
    }

    func loadCustomizedViews(){
        let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()

        // returns 0 if not set, hence having the tabItem's tags starting at 1.
        let changed : Bool = defaults.boolForKey(kOrder)

        if changed {
            var customViewControllers = [UIViewController]()
            var tagNumber: Int = 0
            for (var i=0; i