How can I make a scrollable TabBar...?

Question

I'm working on an app that needs many TabBar Items (6 or 7). I don't think users like to click the "More" button on TabBars, so I'm wondering how to make my own TabBar that slides from left to right, so one can easily access all the buttons on the tabbar without pressing "More."

Thanks!

Answer 1

I agree with the other answer that it's a bad idea from a design standpoint.

Nevertheless, the technical answer is that you can simply embed a UITabBar in a UIScrollView. If you set the tab bar's width and the scroll view's contentSize appropriately, the tab bar will be scrollable. You will probably want to turn off bouncing and scroll indicators.

I didn't try it with a UITarBarController.

Answer 2

Opinions on whether this is a good idea or not aside

A simple carousel should be fairly simple to implement from scratch using a UIScrollView with UIButton subviews. which will provide all the scroll mechanics for you

As a sample idea.

• A UISCrollView which spans the width of the device.
• N buttons across the scroll content pane
• Restrict scroller to horizontal scrolling.
• Provide selected and unselected images for the buttons
• Create glue code to ensure only one button is selected at a time (like Radio buttons)

But I do agree with the other posters that its a bad UI idea. Id be thinking UIToolbar for this.