iPhone: Camera Overlay can fit in a Tabbar Viewcontroller?

Question

I have a Tabbar application, where clicking on a tabbar item, i should show a Camera Overlay view , BUT it should not HIDE the tabbar, Camera overlay should just fit into the tabbar viewcontrollers, just like behind the tabbar view. I created a custom camera overlay and called UIImagePickerController to my customer camera overlay. But it opens up with full screen mode and hides my tabbar etc.

pickerController.cameraOverlayView = camCumtomOverlay;

I even tried resized the custom camera overlay to small like below, but it open up the camera view with full screen and hides my entire tabbars.

myOwnOverlay = [[[UIView alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 300)] autorelease];

But i want to to fit that custom camera overlay into tabbar. Could someone please advise me how to achieve it?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I presume you're using presentModalViewController: to present the picker. Modal view controllers will go over everything that's behind, so the tabbar will hide as well. You can add a tabbar in the overlay that acts the same as the main tabbar.