Programmatically pressing a UITabBar button in Xcode

Question

Sorry for the newbie question. I have a UITabBar in my main window view as well as an array of UINavigationControllers for each Tab. The structure is similar to the iPod a

Answer 1

I wanted to do something similar but for XCode 6.4 iOS (8.4) setSelectedIndex by itself won't do it.

Add the view controllers of the tab bar to a list and then use something like the following in some function and then call it:

FirstViewController *firstVC = [[self viewControllers] objectAtIndex:0];
[self.selectedViewController.view removeFromSuperview]
[self.view insertSubview:firstVC.view belowSubview:self.tabBar];
[self.tabBar setSelectedItem:self.firstTabBarItem];
self.selectedViewController = firstVC;

You might have similar code already inside your didSelectedItem..

- (void)tabBar:(UITabBar *)tabBar didSelectItem:(UITabBarItem *)item {

   if (item == self.firstTabBarItem) 
      // Right here
    }
    else if ...
}