iOS Hiding tab bar in iOS 6 creates black bar (fix for iOS 6 breaks iOS 7!)

Question

I\'ve got a tabbed application and in one tab there is a UIWebView. When I rotate the device to landscape I\'ve made the UIWebView full screen whil

Answer 1

I've created a a public Gist on Github for how we're doing this.

This solution has gone through several iterations due to @Chris Byatt and our team trying it out. So, make sure you download the latest revision from there.

The method signature has been simplified to

- (void)setTabBarHidden:(BOOL)hidden animated:(BOOL)animated;

You can call it like this within your UIViewController subclass:

[self.tabBarController setTabBarHidden:YES animated:YES];