How to remember last selected tab in UITabBarController?

Question

I'm trying to make my app remember which tab was last being viewed before the app quit, so that the app opens up to the same tab when it is next launched. This is the functionality of the iPhone's phone function: how can I do this?

Answer 1

UPDATE

In the UITabBarControllerDelegate's Delegate, overwrite

Objective C

- (BOOL)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController shouldSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
{
NSLog(@"%lu",self.tabBarController.selectedIndex);
return YES;
}

In this delegate method you will get last selected index.

Swift 3.2

func tabBarController(_ tabBarController: UITabBarController, shouldSelect viewController: UIViewController) -> Bool
{
    print("%i",tabBarController.selectedIndex)
    return true
}

Answer 2

I subclassed TabBarController and:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
    self.selectedIndex = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] integerForKey:@"activeTab"];
}

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];

    [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] setInteger: self.selectedIndex
             forKey:@"activeTab"];
}