Banner VC wont load from plist array

Question

I have a plist that populates everything on the tab bar including the tableview: tab name, tab icon, title, detail, and makes the VCs into viewControllers array. "Banner VC alloc with content view controller : viewControllers" - wont accept an array, only a single VC, or multiple VCs if theyre known. The tabs are mutable, they can move and change, so I cant program them individually. How do I pass an unknown array of tabs to a bannerview controller?

Below is very close, but banner vc will only display the last set in the plist, not the whole set...And will just crash if I try passing viewControllers array to it.

What im asking is... How do you load banner vc with one plist that has 5 tabs built in it?

Thanks ahead of time. And if im way off course could someone please attempt to stear me. I really dont want to limit myself to onyl 5 tabs.

I just add a key to the plist and it automaticlly ads a tab to the more section... How do I pass this through bannew VC?

_tabBarController.viewControllers = viewControllers; //Loads the array viewControllers fine with 5 tabs and icons, but no banner container

_tabBarController.viewControllers = @[[[BannerViewController alloc] initWithContentViewController:viewControllers]] // Crashes on launch

_tabBarController.viewControllers = @[[[BannerViewController alloc] initWithContentViewController:newsNavigationController]] // Loads only the last key in plist and with no icons


     @implementation AppDelegate {
    UITabBarController *_tabBarController;
}

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    CGRect bounds = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
    self.window = [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:bounds];
    self.window.backgroundColor = [UIColor whiteColor];    

    NSMutableArray * viewControllers = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];

    NSString * subscriptionListFile = [[[NSBundle mainBundle] bundlePath] stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"My_Subscription.plist"];
    NSDictionary * subscriptionList = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:subscriptionListFile];
    NSArray * subscriptionFolders = subscriptionList[@"Folders"];

    NewsListViewController * newsController = nil;
    UINavigationController * newsNavigationController = nil;

    for (NSDictionary * folderDetails in subscriptionFolders) {

        NSArray * newsItems = folderDetails[@"Items"];
        NSString * folderTitle = folderDetails[@"FolderName"];
        NSString * folderIcon = folderDetails[@"FolderIcon"];
        UIImage * folderIconImage = [UIImage imageNamed:folderIcon];

        newsController = [[NewsListViewController alloc] initWithNewsSourceList:newsItems];
        [newsController setTitle:folderTitle];
        newsNavigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:newsController];
        [newsNavigationController setTitle:folderTitle];
        [newsNavigationController.tabBarItem setImage:folderIconImage];
        [viewControllers addObject:newsNavigationController];

    }

    _tabBarController = [[UITabBarController alloc] init];



//  _tabBarController.viewControllers = viewControllers;   <--- this line works, below doesnt load the array...


    _tabBarController.viewControllers = @[[[BannerViewController alloc] initWithContentViewController:viewControllers]]


         self.window.rootViewController = _tabBarController;
        [self.window makeKeyAndVisible];
        return YES;
    }
@end        //The above crashes, but works fine if I SKIP "BannerViewController alloc..." 
            //and go right to "_tabBarController.viewControllers = viewControllers"  

            //perfect but no adbanner :(

Answer 1

The method, initWithContentViewController:, as you can tell from its name (controller not controllers), accepts only one view controller as its argument. It's not quite clear what you're trying to do, since that method is a method of UIPopoverController, and you wouldn't normally make a popover controller one of the controllers in a tabBar controller's viewControllers.