iPhone: How to switch tabs with an animation?
I'm switching tabs programmatically in a tab bar driven application using UITabBarController.selectedIndex. The problem I'm trying to solve is how to animate the transition between the views. ie. from the view of the current tab to the view of the selected tab.
The first thought was to make use of the UITabBarControllerDelegate, but it appears that this is not called when programmatically switching tabs. I'm now considering the UITabBarDelegate.didSelectItem: as a possible hook to set a transition animation.
Has anyone managed to animate the transitions? If yes, how ?
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Update 04/2016: Justed wanted to update this to say thank you to everyone for all the votes. Please also note that this was originally written way back when ... before ARC, before constraints, before ... a lot of stuff! So please take this into account when deciding whether to use these techniques. There may be more modern approaches. Oh, and if you find one. Please add a response so everyone can see. Thanks.