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

The developer doesn't own the tabBar, the framework does. It will fight you to make sure that the tabBar stays the same height. If you want to work around this, you can make your own toolbar and add autlayout constraints to its height to force it to stay whatever height you'd like.