Switching to a TabBar tab view programmatically?

Question

Try this code in Swift or Objective-C

Swift

self.tabBarController.selectedIndex = 1

Objective-C

[self.tabBarController setSelectedIndex:1];

Note that the tabs are indexed starting from 0. So the following code snippet works

tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];
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tabBarController.selectedViewController = [tabBarController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:4];

goes to the fifth tab in the bar.

My opinion is that selectedIndex or using objectAtIndex is not necessarily the best way to switch the tab. If you reorder your tabs, a hard coded index selection might mess with your former app behavior.

If you have the object reference of the view controller you want to switch to, you can do:

tabBarController.selectedViewController = myViewController

Of course you must make sure, that myViewController really is in the list of tabBarController.viewControllers.

You can simply just set the selectedIndex property on the UITabBarController to the appropriate index and the view will be changed just like the user tapped the tab button.