Tabman is a powerful paging view controller with indicator bar, for iOS.
- Super easy to implement page view controller with indicator bar.
- Multiple indicator bar styles.
- Simplistic, yet highly extensive customisation.
- Full support for custom components.
- Built on a powerful and informative page view controller, Pageboy.
Tabman is available through CocoaPods. To install it, simply add the following line to your Podfile:
pod 'Tabman'
And run pod install
.
Dependencies
- Pageboy by Merrick Sapsford
- PureLayout by PureLayout
A nice pretty example project is available to take a look at some of the features that Tabman
offers. To run the example, simply clone the repo, run pod install
and build the workspace.
Tabman requires iOS 9.0 or above.
- Create an instance of
TabmanViewController
and provide it with aPageboyViewControllerDataSource
. Note:TabmanViewController
conforms to and is set as thePageboyViewControllerDelegate
.
class YourTabViewController: TabmanViewController, PageboyViewControllerDataSource {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.dataSource = self
}
}
- Implement the
PageboyViewControllerDataSource
and configure the bar for display.
func viewControllers(forPageboyViewController pageboyViewController: PageboyViewController) -> [UIViewController]? {
// return array of view controllers
let viewControllers = [viewController1, viewController2]
// configure the bar
self.bar.items = [TabmanBarItem(title: "Page 1"),
TabmanBarItem(title: "Page 2")]
return viewControllers
}
func defaultPageIndex(forPageboyViewController pageboyViewController: PageboyViewController) -> PageboyViewController.PageIndex? {
// use default index
return nil
}
- All done! 🍻
As Tabman
is based on Pageboy, everything behaves the same and all the same properties/functions are available. Such as these functions for navigation & reloading:
// Scroll the page view controller to a new page.
public func scrollToPage(_ pageIndex: PageIndex,
animated: Bool,
completion: PageTransitionCompletion? = nil)
// Reload the view controllers in the page view controller.
public func reloadPages()
Read up on the Pageboy
docs to find out a bit more here.
The TabmanBar
in Tabman can be completely customised to your liking, by simply modifying the available properties in the .bar
TabmanBarConfig
object.
The style of bar to display, by default this is set to .scrollingButtonBar
.
For examples on implementing real-world bar styles with Tabman
, check out Tabman-Styles.
Where you want the bar to appear, either at the top or bottom of the screen. By default this is set to .preferred
which will use the predefined preferred location for the active style.
The bar will automatically take UIKit
components such as UINavigationBar
and UITabBar
into account.
The TabmanBarAppearance
object provides all the available properties for appearance customisation of a TabmanBar
. Not all of the properties are appropriate for each style TabmanBar
, therefore the bar will only respond to the properties it adheres to.
To set a custom appearance definition do this on a TabmanViewController
:
tabViewController.bar.appearance = TabmanBar.Appearance({ (appearance) in
// customise appearance here
appearance.text.color = UIColor.red
appearance.indicator.isProgressive = true
})
The following properties are available:
/// Indicator configuration
public struct Indicator {
/// The preferred style to use for the indicator.
/// This is optionally conformed to by the bar.
public var preferredStyle: TabmanIndicator.Style?
/// The color of the bar indicator.
public var color: UIColor?
/// The weight (thickness) of the bar indicator if using a line indicator.
public var lineWeight: TabmanIndicator.LineWeight?
/// Whether the indicator transiton is progressive.
public var isProgressive: Bool?
/// Whether the indicator bounces at the end of page ranges.
public var bounces: Bool?
/// Whether the indicator compresses at the end of page ranges.
public var compresses: Bool?
/// Whether to use rounded corners on line indicators.
public var useRoundedCorners: Bool?
}
/// State configuration.
public struct State {
/// The color to use for selected items in the bar (text/images etc.).
public var selectedColor: UIColor?
/// The text color to use for unselected items in the bar (text/images etc.).
public var color: UIColor?
}
/// Text configuration
public struct Text {
/// The font to use for text labels in the bar.
public var font: UIFont?
}
/// Layout configuration
public struct Layout {
/// The spacing between items in the bar.
public var interItemSpacing: CGFloat?
/// The spacing at the edge of the items in the bar.
public var edgeInset: CGFloat?
/// The height for the bar.
public var height: TabmanBar.Height?
/// The vertical padding between the item and the bar bounds.
public var itemVerticalPadding: CGFloat?
}
/// Bar style configuration.
public struct Style {
/// The background style for the bar.
public var background: TabmanBarBackgroundView.BackgroundStyle?
/// Whether to show a fade on the items at the bounds edge of a scrolling button bar.
public var showEdgeFade: Bool?
/// Color of the separator at the bottom of the bar.
public var bottomSeparatorColor: UIColor?
}
/// Bar interaction configuration
public struct Interaction {
/// Whether user scroll is enabled on a scrolling button bar.
public var isScrollEnabled: Bool?
}
A number of default properties are set on TabmanBar.Appearance
, these can be viewed here.
For more advanced customisation, including defining your own indicator and bar styles please read here.
Please feel free to contact me on Twitter.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/MerrickSapsford/Tabman.
The library is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.