uitabbarcontroller - changing the height of UITabBar in iOS7/8?

Question

I am trying to change the height of the stock UITabBar to 44px, similar to Tweetbot's tab bar height. I've also seen a few other apps do this as well.

however, when i try to set the height it still remains the same

self.tabBar.frame.height = 40

are we not allowed to change the tab bar height? and if so what is a good alternative? using a toolbar?

Answer 1

It seems everybody says this can't be done easily

In your storyboard give your UITabBar a custom subclass name, then implement the subclass with the following

This tells all views that use the tab bar that it should be a certain height.

@implementation MyTabBar

-(CGSize)sizeThatFits:(CGSize)size
{
    CGSize sizeThatFits = [super sizeThatFits:size];
    sizeThatFits.height = 100;

    return sizeThatFits;
}

@end