iOS/Swift - Hide/Show UITabBarController when scrolling down/up

Question

I\'m quite new to iOS development. Right now i\'m trying to hide my tabbar when I scroll down and when scrolling up the tabbar should appear. I would like to have this anima

Answer 1

You can control UITabBar precisly by setting up your class as delegate for scrollView and implementing scrolling in scrollViewDidScroll: method.

Here is an example how I do it my application. You can probably easily modify that for your needs. Some helper function to get UITabBar included.

#define LIMIT(__VALUE__, __MIN__, __MAX__) MAX(__MIN__, MIN(__MAX__, __VALUE__))

- (void)scrollViewDidScroll:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
    CGFloat scrollOffset = scrollView.contentOffset.y;
    CGFloat scrollDiff = scrollOffset - self.previousScrollViewYOffset;
    CGFloat scrollHeight = scrollView.frame.size.height;
    CGFloat scrollContentSizeHeight = scrollView.contentSize.height + scrollView.contentInset.bottom;
    CGFloat scrollOffsetGlobal = scrollOffset + scrollView.contentInset.top;
    [self updateUITabBarY:[self UITabBarView].frame.origin.y + scrollDiff];
    self.previousScrollViewYOffset = scrollOffset;
}

- (UITabBar*) UITabBarView
{
    for(UIView *view in self.tabBarController.view.subviews)
    {
        if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]])
        {
            return (UITabBar*) view;
        }
    }

    return nil;
}

- (void) updateUITabBarY:(CGFloat) y
{
    UITabBar* tabBar = [self UITabBarView];
    if(tabBar)
    {
        CGRect frame = tabBar.frame;
        frame.origin.y  = LIMIT(y, [self UITabBarMiny], [self UITabBarMaxY]);
        tabBar.frame = frame;
    }
}

- (CGFloat) UITabBarMiny
{
    return [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height - [self UITabBarView].frame.size.height - [[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBarFrame].size.height + 20.0f;
}

- (CGFloat) UITabBarMaxY
{
    return [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.height;
}