I am setting my view controllers title like this in view did load:
self.title = @"my title";
prior to this I set the title in story boards for the view controller and navigation controller it is embedded in. I set it to: "Title";
When I click on the tab that holds the view controller the title of tab bar item and uiviewcontroller change to: my title
I would like for the view controller to change but the tab bar item to stay with the title: Title
How can I accomplish this?
Note: If you have a tab bar controller with navigation controllers at the root of each view controller, setting the tab bar item on the view controllers won't affect the title if you're setting the navigationItem.title. You'll need to set the tabBarItem onto the navigation controller instead for it to be picked up from the tab bar controller.
None of the answers posted by others worked for me because my tab bar's view controllers all have navigation controllers at their root - this is a common hierarchy pattern for UITabBarController. You have to set the navigation controller's tabBarItem instead to get the title to show differently from the navigationItem's title
You can create your tabBarItem and associate them to your VC directly like so.
let tabBarVCOne = BooksListViewController()
tabBarVCOne.tabBarItem = UITabBarItem(title: "Books", image: nil, tag: 0)
tabBarViewControllers.append(tabBarVCOne)
...
Then you'll have something like this:
//Wrap each view controller in a navigation controller.
self.viewControllers = tabBarViewControllers.map(UINavigationController.init)
But that should be changed to the following in order to grab the already associated tabBarItem from the view controller and set it onto the navigation controller automatically.
self.viewControllers = tabBarViewControllers.map({
let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: $0)
navigationController.tabBarItem = $0.tabBarItem
return navigationController
})
You will now be able to have a different title (set from your VC) separate from the title defined for your tabBarItem.
Here you go, I created an extension for UIViewController:
import UIKit
extension UIViewController {
/// Setting the navigation title and tab bar title
///
/// - Parameters:
/// - navigationTitle: Navigation title
/// - tabBarTitle: TabBar title
func setTitles(navigationTitle: String, tabBarTitle: String) {
// Order is important here!
title = tabBarTitle
navigationItem.title = navigationTitle
}
}
And then from your controller:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
setTitles(navigationTitle: "Login", tabBarTitle: "Home")
}
Pretty late to this. You could have your TabBarController serve as the UITabBarControllerDelegate and UINavigationControllerDelegate for itself and the navigation controllers embedded in each of your tabs respectively.
.h:
@interface YourTabBarController : UITabBarController <UITabBarControllerDelegate, UINavigationControllerDelegate>
@end
.m:
- (void) viewDidLoad {
// UITabBarControllerDelegate
self.delegate = self;
// UINavigationControllerDelegates
yourNavigationController.delegate = self;
...
}
- (void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController{
yourNavigationController.tabBarItem.title = @"Tab Bar Title";
...
}
- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated {
yourNavigationController.tabBarItem.title = @"Tab Bar Title";
...
}
Based on some quick testing, it seems like these two delegate actions should cover any loose cases and will update the title whether you're switching tabs or browsing in your navigation controller. For completeness, you could update your title in didShowViewController as well, but based on what I've seen, I don't think it's necessary.
Probably a bit late (but).
Setting the title of a VC changes the title of the Navigation AND the tabBar. (if the VC is already attached to both).
If you want to have separate titles, you need to manually set those, you normally set the title for the VC and then specifically the title of the tabBarItem, since it's a property of the
