iOS TabbarViewController hide the tab bar

Question

I have a viewcontroller that it implement UITabbarViewController, and I want to hide the tab bar and override it by myself,

self.tabBar.hidden = YES; 

the tab bar disappeared BUT there is a blank area(the blue one) at the bottom of the view. I dont want the blank area , how can I fix this? Thank you.

edit: the blue area is:

self.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blueColor]; 

Answer 1

We've done exactly the same in our application. To hide the default TabBar, simply override the hidesBottomBarWhenPushed method in your parent view controller (or in every view controller in your App)

#pragma mark - Overriden UIViewController methods - (BOOL)hidesBottomBarWhenPushed {     return YES; } 

EDIT: This value can also be set from Storyboard:

Answer 2

My UITabBarController is housed within a container view. Checking "Hide Bottom Bar on Push" was not working for me. Instead I created a subclass of the tab bar controller and hid the tab bar programmatically.

class FooTabBar: UITabBarController {   override func viewDidLayoutSubviews() {     super.viewDidLayoutSubviews()     self.tabBar.isHidden = true   } }