howtohideuitabbarcontroller(转)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5272290/how-to-hide-uitabbarcontroller

I am pasting this from my working code... you can call these methods to hide and show the tabbarcontroller.... just pass tabbarcontroller instance to these functions..

// Method call
[self hideTabBar:self.tabBarController];   

// Method implementations
- (void)hideTabBar:(UITabBarController *) tabbarcontroller
{
    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];

    for(UIView *view in tabbarcontroller.view.subviews)
    {
        if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]])
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, 480, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height)];
        } 
        else 
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, view.frame.origin.y, view.frame.size.width, 480)];
        }
    }

    [UIView commitAnimations];   
}

- (void)showTabBar:(UITabBarController *) tabbarcontroller
{       
    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];
    for(UIView *view in tabbarcontroller.view.subviews)
    {
        NSLog(@"%@", view);

        if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]])
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, 431, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height)];

        } 
        else 
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, view.frame.origin.y, view.frame.size.width, 431)];
        }
    }

    [UIView commitAnimations]; 
}

Modified Setomidor's answer to work on both landscape, portrait, and iPad (the 320 and 480 values only work on iPhone).

- (void) hideTabBar:(UITabBarController *) tabbarcontroller 
{
    CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];

    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];
    float fHeight = screenRect.size.height;
    if(  UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape([UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation) )
    {
        fHeight = screenRect.size.width;
    }

    for(UIView *view in tabbarcontroller.view.subviews)
    {
        if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]])
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, fHeight, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height)];
        } 
        else 
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, view.frame.origin.y, view.frame.size.width, fHeight)];
            view.backgroundColor = [UIColor blackColor];
        }
    }
    [UIView commitAnimations];
}



- (void) showTabBar:(UITabBarController *) tabbarcontroller 
{   
    CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
    float fHeight = screenRect.size.height - 49.0;

    if(  UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape([UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation) )
    {
        fHeight = screenRect.size.width - 49.0;
    }

    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];
    for(UIView *view in tabbarcontroller.view.subviews)
    {   
        if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]])
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, fHeight, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height)];            
        } 
        else 
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, view.frame.origin.y, view.frame.size.width, fHeight)];
        }       
    }
    [UIView commitAnimations]; 
}

Saurabh's answer above can be extended to also work in landscape orientation:

+ (void) hideTabBar:(UITabBarController *) tabbarcontroller {

    [UIView beginAnimations:nil context:NULL];
    [UIView setAnimationDuration:0.5];

    //Support for landscape views
    int orientation = [[UIDevice currentDevice] orientation];
    int x_pos = 480;
    if (orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft || orientation == UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight) {
        x_pos = 320;
    }

    for(UIView *view in tabbarcontroller.view.subviews)
    {
        if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]])
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, x_pos, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height)];
        } 
        else 
        {
            [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, view.frame.origin.y, view.frame.size.width, x_pos)];
        }       
    }   
    [UIView commitAnimations]; 
}

Saurahb and karlbecker_com's solutions are great, though they can cause an obvious popping effect when the view contains a tableview while the tab bar animates back up. I've made some modifications and combined it into a single function (as a category on UITabBarController). It's not completely perfect (delayed correction animation) but gives good results with tables.

If you like animation blocks and categories, give this a try. Orientation and device friendly.

UITabBarController+ShowHideBar.m:

#import "UITabBarController+ShowHideBar.h"

@implementation UITabBarController (ShowHideBar)

- (void) setHidden:(BOOL)hidden{

    CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
    float fHeight = screenRect.size.height;
    if(  UIDeviceOrientationIsLandscape([UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarOrientation) ){
        fHeight = screenRect.size.width;
    }

    if(!hidden) fHeight -= self.tabBar.frame.size.height;

    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 animations:^{
        for(UIView *view in self.view.subviews){
            if([view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]]){
                [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, fHeight, view.frame.size.width, view.frame.size.height)];
            }else{
                if(hidden) [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, view.frame.origin.y, view.frame.size.width, fHeight)];
            }
        }
    }completion:^(BOOL finished){
        if(!hidden){

            [UIView animateWithDuration:0.25 animations:^{

                for(UIView *view in self.view.subviews)
                {
                    if(![view isKindOfClass:[UITabBar class]])
                        [view setFrame:CGRectMake(view.frame.origin.x, view.frame.origin.y, view.frame.size.width, fHeight)];
                }

            }];
        }
    }];

}

@end