This is another common design pattern found in iOS apps, it includes a bar (generally black) at the bottom of the screen with various icons which when tapped load up different views.
Each icon (button) is actually a separate viewController with the title of the viewController displayed below each of the icon. |
| tabbar |
The uitabbarcontroller has a viewControllers property to which an array of viewControllers is assigned. Generally tabbarcontrollers have four or five viewControllers. In case there are more than 5 view controllers a more icon is created like the one seen above which has the rest of the viewcontrollers.
