Swift setting Badge Value for UITabBarItem

swift swift2 uitabbarcontroller uitabbaritem
Gino picture Gino · Apr 18, 2015 · Viewed 17.7k times · Source

I'm attempting to add a badge alert label like the one in the screenshot attached.

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I've tried to search for titles, labels uitabbar items but I'm stuck.

Any suggestion is appreciated.

Answer

Leo Dabus picture Leo Dabus · Apr 18, 2015

Xcode 7.2.1 Swift 2.1.1

You just have to set the badgeValue for your desired UITabBarItem as follow:

tabBarController?.tabBar.items?[4].badgeValue = "1"   // this will add "1" badge to your fifth tab bar item


// or like this to apply it to your first tab
tabBarController?.tabBar.items?.first?.badgeValue = "1st"

// or to apply to your second tab
tabBarController?.tabBar.items?[1].badgeValue = "2nd"

// to apply it to your last tab
tabBarController?.tabBar.items?.last?.badgeValue = "Last"

To remove a badge from the UITabBarItem just add nil value to it

tabBarController?.tabBar.items?.first?.badgeValue = nil

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