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    As we have noticed that iPhone/iPad tab-bar display maximum five tabs and if we have more than 5 tabs then only 4 icons are visible with 5th one displaying more option. In case we need to display more than 5 tabs without more icon we need to customize our UITabbarController.

    So here we will customize our UITabbarController by adding collection view over tab-bar so that we can have more than 5 tabs on tab-bar which is also easily scrollable.

     

     

    So let's start with a storyboard. Drag UITabbarController to your storyboard and add a number of viewcontroller to it. Here we are working with 6 viewcontrollers.

     

    Now we will start with customizing UITabbarController by subclassing it . 

     

     

     

    Assign CustomTabbarController to you tabbar controller on storyboard. Add the following code on your CustomTabbarController class.

    class CustomTabbarController: UITabBarController , UICollectionViewDelegate , UICollectionViewDataSource , UICollectionViewDelegateFlowLayout{
    
        var imageArr = [String]()
        override func viewDidLoad() {
            super.viewDidLoad()
            
            imageArr = ["Film","DropOff","news","camera","gallery","msg"] // array of images used as tabbar icon.
            
            let layout = UICollectionViewFlowLayout()
            layout.sectionInset = UIEdgeInsets(top: 5, left: 0, bottom: 5, right: 0)
            layout.scrollDirection = UICollectionViewScrollDirection.horizontal
            let collectionView = UICollectionView(frame: CGRect.init(x: 0, y: self.view.frame.height - self.tabBar.frame.height , width: self.view.frame.width, height: self.tabBar.frame.height) , collectionViewLayout: layout)
            collectionView.backgroundColor = UIColor.white
            collectionView.delegate = self
            collectionView.dataSource = self
            
            collectionView.register(UICollectionViewCell.self, forCellWithReuseIdentifier: "Cell")
            self.view.addSubview(collectionView)
            
        }
    
        override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
            
            super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
           
        }
        
        func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, numberOfItemsInSection section: Int) -> Int{
            
            return imageArr.count // number of tabs on tabbar
        }
        
        func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, cellForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UICollectionViewCell
        {
            
            let cell = collectionView.dequeueReusableCell(withReuseIdentifier: "Cell", for: indexPath)
    
            let imageView = UIImageView.init(frame: CGRect.init(x: 0, y: 0, width: cell.contentView.frame.size.width, height: cell.contentView.frame.size.height))
            if imageView.image == nil{
                imageView.image = UIImage.init(named: imageArr[indexPath.row])}
            imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
            cell.addSubview(imageView)
            return cell
            
        }
    
        func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, didSelectItemAt indexPath: IndexPath){
            
            self.selectedIndex = indexPath.row
            
        }
        
        func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, sizeForItemAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> CGSize{
            
            return CGSize.init(width: self.tabBar.frame.size.width/5 - 1, height: self.tabBar.frame.size.height)
        }
        
        
        func collectionView(_ collectionView: UICollectionView, layout collectionViewLayout: UICollectionViewLayout, minimumLineSpacingForSectionAt section: Int) -> CGFloat{
            
            return 0.1 
        }
    
    }

     

     

    Run the code and the output will look something like this

     

    Customize UITabbarController by Collection View for iOS App in iPhone Device

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