Select a tab bar item programmatically (not using UITabBarController)

Question

I have a view derived from UIViewControler (not UITabBarController). In this view I added a tab bar with several tab bar items. I used the UITabBarDelegate to allow the view to do something when users tap on each tab bar item.

class MyViewController: UIViewController, UITabBarDelegate {

    func tabBar(tabBar: UITabBar, didSelectItem item: UITabBarItem!) {
        // do something
    }
}

My question is how we can programmatically select the first tab bar item when the view is first loaded? Note that I would want the first tab item to be in "active" state also.

Again, I'm not using UITabBarController

Thanks

Answer 1

[tabBar setSelectedItem: [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:0]];

Which in swift, I think would be:

tabBar.selectedItem = tabBar.items![0] as UITabBarItem