UITabBarController

View controllers become more interesting when the user has a way to switch between them. Throughout this book, you will learn a number of ways to present view controllers. In this chapter, you will create a UITabBarController that will allow the user to swap between the ConversionViewController and the UIViewController displaying the map.

UITabBarController keeps an array of view controllers. It also maintains a tab bar at the bottom of the screen with a tab for each view controller in its array. Tapping on a tab results in the presentation of the view of the view controller associated with that tab.

Open Main.storyboard and select the View Controller. From the Editor menu, choose Embed InTab Bar Controller ...

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