ESTabBarController

Tab Bar

ESTabBarController

December 1, 2023

中文介绍

ESTabBarController is a highly customizable TabBarController component, which is inherited from UITabBarController.

Why?

In real-world development, we may encounter the situation of customizing the UITabBar. For instance: change font style, add animation, and use bigger items. However it’s hard to do with UITabBarItem.

With ESTabBarController, You can easily achieve these!

–	Feature	Description
1	Default style	You can get a system-like style by initializing the TabBar with ESTabBarController directly. UITabBarController style: ESTabBarController default style:
2	Default style with “More” item	If the items are more than the maximum number of displays, there will be a “More” item. UITabBarController with “More”: ESTabBarController with “More”:
3	Mix UITabBarItem and ESTabBarItem	You can set any item as you want, including UITabBarItem and ESTabBarItem. ESTabBar and UITabBar mixed style: ESTabBar and UITabBar mixed style with “More”:
4	UIKit attributes	ESTabBarController is compatible with UITabBarController, UITabBar and UITabBarItem’s most API attributes. You can migrate to ESTabBarController without any modification of the origin code. Compatible with UITabBarController’s `selectedIndex`:
5	Any nesting with UINavigationController	Developing with`UITabBarController`, there are two common ways to handle layers: First : ├── UITabBarController └──── UINavigationController └────── UIViewController └──────── SubviewControllers Second : ├── UINavigationController └──── UITabBarController └────── UIViewController └──────── SubviewControllers In the first case, need to set `hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = true` when pushing subViews. The second is not. In ESTabBarController, add Container views to UITabBar to be compatible with these two ways。
6	Customizable style	With ESTabBarController, you can： 1. Customize selected item’s color and style: 2. Add selecting animation: 3. Customize item’s background color: 4. Add highlight animation: 5. Add animation to prompt users: 6. And much more …
7	Customizable item’s size Customizable click event	You can easily customize item’s size using ESTabBarController. When the button’s frame is larger than TabBar, HitTest makes the outer TabBar area click valid. In addition, ESTabBarController can customize click event, and through a block to callback super-layer to handle. With big item in the middle of TabBar: With a special hint style: Customize click event:
8	Default notification style	You can get a system-like notification style by initializing the TabBar with ESTabBarController directly. UITabBarController notification style: ESTabBarController system-like notification style:
9	Customizable notification style	With ESTabBarController, you can： 1. Customize notification animation: 2. Customize prompt style: 3. And much more …
10	Lottie	Through customizing ContentView, you are able to add Lottie’s LAAnimationView to Item(s)

Requirements

Xcode 8 or later
iOS 8.0 or later
ARC
Swift 5 or later

Demo

You can download and build ESTabBarControllerExample project, and you will find more examples to use ESTabBarController, and also more examples to customize UITabBar。

Usage

Swift Package Manager


                                              
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dependencies: [

.package(name: “ESTabBarController”, url: “https://github.com/eggswift/ESTabBarController.git”, from: “2.9.0-spm”)

]

…

CocoaPods


                                              
                                                pod “ESTabBarController-swift”

Carthage


                                              
                                                github “eggswift/ESTabBarController”

Manually


                                              
                                                git clone https://github.com/eggswift/ESTabBarController.git

open ESTabBarController

GitHub

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