uitabbarcontroller

Question

I wrote an app that uses UITabBarController , but if I add a lot of tabs it don't show me more button. Doesn't the UITabBarController creates this button automatically?

Answer 1

No - according to the documentation , you should not need to handle this yourself.

The tab bar has limited space for displaying your custom items. If you add six or more custom view controllers to a tab bar controller, the tab bar controller displays only the first four items plus the standard More item on the tab bar. Tapping the More item brings up a standard interface for selecting the remaining items.

Answer 2

Yes, you need to create it manually. The "fifth tab is more" is just a convention. It's up to you to create a UIView/UIViewController pair to manage your additional settings and map them to that fifth tab.