How to set the Tab bar item 1 to be selected by default in iphone?

Question

I am new to iPhone development. I am creating a view based application. I have added a tab bar in my view (and not a tab bar controller). By setting the tag vale of the tab bar item to 1, 2, I have loaded the view for each tab bar on tabbar item click event.

I want the tab bar 1 to be selected by default. What should I do for that?

Here is my code:

- (void)tabBar:(UITabBar *)tabBar didSelectItem:(UITabBarItem *)item {     NSLog(@"didSelectItem: %d", item.tag);     [self activateTab:item.tag]; }  - (void)activateTab:(int)index {     switch (index) {         case 1:                  self.tab1ViewController =[[tab1 alloc] initWithNibName:@"tab1" bundle:nil];              [self.view insertSubview:tab1ViewController.view belowSubview:tabbar1];             if (currentViewController != nil)                 [currentViewController.view removeFromSuperview];             currentViewController = tab1ViewController;              break;         case 2:                  self.tab2ViewController =[[tab2 alloc] initWithNibName:@"tab2" bundle:nil];            [self.view insertSubview:tab2ViewController.view belowSubview:tabbar1];            if (currentViewController != nil)                 [currentViewController.view removeFromSuperview];             currentViewController = tab2ViewController;                      break;         default:             break;     } } 

I added the the tab bar in interface builder.Can i do any thing in interface builder?

Answer 1

[tabBar setSelectedItem:[tabBar.items objectAtIndex:item.tag]]; 

Answer 2

For swift if tabBar is @IBOutlet use in viewDidLoad:

tabBar.selectedItem = tabBar.items?.first