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

If you have auto layout enabled, you will need to override instrinsicContentSize instead

Proper usage of intrinsicContentSize and sizeThatFits: on UIView Subclass with autolayout

class TabBar: UITabBar {
    override func intrinsicContentSize() -> CGSize {
        var intrinsicSize = super.frame.size

        intrinsicSize.height = 120
        return intrinsicSize
     }
}