When using hidesBottomBarWhenPushed, i want the tab bar to reappear when i push another view

Question

I have a navigation controller. For one of the views i want to hide the bottom tab bar, so it gets the max possible screen real estate. To do this, i have:

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Answer 1

As of iOS5, there's a very easy means of accomplishing this. It's essentially the same method as Deepak, but there aren't any artifacts with the animation - everything looks as expected.

On init, set

self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;

just as you have above. When it's time to push the new controller on the stack, it's as simple as:

self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = NO;

UIViewController *controller = [[[BBListingController alloc] init] autorelease];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:controller];

self.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;

It's important to reset the value to YES after the controller has been pushed in order to re-hide the bar when the user taps the Back button and the view comes back into view.