iOS - navigation controller to tab bar controller

Question

In my storyboard, I have a Table View Controller and I want to be able to tap on an item in the table view and go to a detail view with more information. In the detail view, I'd like it to be like the Tab Bar Controller as the detail view can be separated into 2 categories.

Is this possible? At the moment I can do it in my storyboard, but after searching around, I can't seem to find out how to pass the details of the selected item from the Table View Controller to the Tab Bar controller.

Am I missing something obvious? Or going about this wrong? I'm new to iOS development so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Have you tried passing the information to one of the TabBarController's view controllers in a property through the prepareForSegue method?

Create two properties in the TableView Controller:

@property (strong, nonatomic) UITabBarController *tabBarController;
@property (strong, nonatomic) YourViewController *firstViewController;

Then Use:

-(void)prepareForSegue:(UIStoryboardSegue *)segue sender:(id)sender
{
   NSLog(@"prepareForSegue: %@", segue.identifier);

   if ([segue.identifier isEqualToString:@"mySegueID"]) {

       self.tabBarController = (UITabBarController*) [segue destinationViewController];
       self.firstViewController = [self.tabBarController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:0];
       self.firstViewController.SOMEPROPERTY = SOMEVALUE;
   }
}