UITabBarController with diffent storyboard file for each ViewController of the TabBar

Question

My team is developing an application that has a UITabBarController. We are using Storyboard to develop the interfaces and the flows.

Since we are a team, we cannot put all flow in just one storyboard, because it will cause in problems with syncing with SVN. So, the solution is to put each tab`s flow in one different storyboard file.

The connection between storyboards is not the problem when I can create an object to do the connection (a button, for example) as we can see in this tutorial.

But when I put a UITabBarController in one storyboard, I cannot manage the view element of the bottom bar (the tabBar itself) in a way to programmatically set the storyboard that will be displayed for each button of the tabBar.

For now, I have the TabBar and the UIViewControllers in the same .storyboard file as we can see:

So what I need is to connect different storyboards through one UITabBarController. How to do that?

Answer 1

You can use Storyboard references to keep the sections of your app separate and in individual Storyboard files. With UITabBarController just ctrl-link to the reference and make sure that you add a UITabBarItem to your ViewController in the new Storyboard.

Answer 2

UIStoryboard *storyboard = [UIStoryboard storyboardWithName:@"Yourstoryboard" bundle:nil];

UINavigationController *thisController = [storyboard instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier:@"YourID"];

mytabBarController.viewControllers = @[phoneViewController];

I still think you should use git : )