changing the height of UITabBar in iOS7/8?

Question

I am trying to change the height of the stock UITabBar to 44px, similar to Tweetbot\'s tab bar height. I\'ve also seen a few other apps do this as well.

Answer 1

In swift it is even simpler than all solutions suggested above by using an extensions to UITabBar, no subclassing necessary:

extension UITabBar {

    override public func sizeThatFits(size: CGSize) -> CGSize {
        super.sizeThatFits(size)
        var sizeThatFits = super.sizeThatFits(size)
        sizeThatFits.height = 
        return sizeThatFits
    }
}