Disable action - user taps on tabbar item to go to root view controller

Question

I want to disable the default action when user taps the tabbar item.

For example, i have a tabbar with Tab1, Tab2 and Tab3. In Tab1, user can navigate from View1 to

Answer 1

if you look at the UITabBarController delegate there is a method:

- (BOOL)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController shouldSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController

If you implement this in your class, you can check if the UIViewController is the already displayed one and then return NO, which will stop this from happening.

I had the same problem with a ABPeoplePicker object embedded in a UITabBarController, in that pressing the 'Contacts' tab a second time which was already displayed would make the ABPeoplePicker control show the 'Groups'