UITabBarController add viewcontroller without tab bar item

Question

I am creating an iOS application where I need to add a SideMenu and a UITabBarController, SideMenu and UITabBarController there purpose is to let the users navigates between different ViewControllers, I have 3 tab bar items in UITabBarController and in the SideMenu I have 5 items, when the user click on an item in the side menu I have to show the corresponding view controller

Question: It's possible to add a ViewController without a TabBarItem to the UITabBarController, when the user click on the side menu item, I trigger the UITabBarController to select the corresponding view controller, or its not possible in UITabBarController I need to find another solution, if so please advice which solution is better.

In the picture above, These are my viewcontrollers but I need to hide the tab bar item for the last view controller and keep the UITabBarViewController behave normally when I programmatically select the last view controller from the side menu

Answer 1

If the ViewController of the side menu is different than the TabBar. You can PUSH the view directly in the controller that is selected in the tabbar in that moment.