XLPagerTabStrip
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Android PagerTabStrip for iOS!
XLPagerTabStrip is a Container View Controller that allows us to switch easily among a collection of view controllers. Pan gesture can be used to move on to next or previous view controller. It shows a interactive indicator of the current, previous, next child view controllers.
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Getting involved
- If you want to contribute please feel free to submit pull requests.
- If you have a feature request please open an issue.
- If you found a bug or need help please check older issues, FAQ and threads on StackOverflow (Tag 'XLPagerTabStrip') before submitting an issue.
Before contribute check the CONTRIBUTING file for more info.
If you use XLPagerTabStrip in your app We would love to hear about it! Drop us a line on twitter.
Pager Types
The library provides 4 different ways to show the view controllers.
Button Bar
This is likely to be the most common pager type. It's used by many well known apps such as instagram, youtube, skype and many others.
Bar
This mode doesn't show a title neither an image. It only shows a bar that indicates the current view controller.
Long time ago twitter app made use of this type of pager in the app main screen.
Segmented
This mode uses a UISegmentedControl
to indicates which is the view controller being displayed.
Usage
Basically we just need to provide the list of child view controllers to show and these view controllers should provide the information (title or image) that will be shown in the associated indicator.
Let's see the steps to do this:
Choose which type of pager we want to create
First we should choose the type of pager we want to create, depending on our choice we will have to create a view controller that extends from one of the following controllers: TwitterPagerTabStripViewController
, ButtonBarPagerTabStripViewController
, SegmentedPagerTabStripViewController
, BarPagerTabStripViewController
.
All these build-in pager controllers extend from the base class
PagerTabStripViewController
. You can also make your custom pager controller by extending directly fromPagerTabStripViewController
in case no pager menu type fits your needs.
import XLPagerTabStrip
class MyPagerTabStripName: ButtonBarPagerTabStripViewController {
..
}
Connect outlets and add layout constraints
We strongly recommend to use IB to set up our page controller views.
Drag into the storyboard a UIViewController
and set up its class with your pager controller (MyPagerTabStripName
).
Drag a UIScrollView
into your view controller view and connect PagerTabStripViewController
containerView
outlet with the scroll view.
Depending on which type of paging view controller you are working with you may have to connect more outlets.
For BarPagerTabStripViewController
we should connect barView
outlet. barView type is UIView. ButtonBarPagerTabStripViewController
requires us to connect buttonBarView
outlet. buttonBarView
type is ButtonBarView
which extends from UICollectionView
. SegmentedPagerTabStripViewController
has a segmentedControl
outlet, if the outlet is not connected the library try to set up the navigationItem titleView
property using a UISegmentedControl
. TwitterPagerTabStripViewController
doesn't require us to connect any additional outlet.
The example project contains a example for each pager controller type and we can look into it to see how views were added and how outlets were connected.
Provide the view controllers that will appear embedded into the PagerTabStrip view controller
You can provide the view controllers by overriding func viewControllers(for: pagerTabStripController: PagerTabStripViewController) -> [UIViewController]
method.
override public func viewControllers(for pagerTabStripController: PagerTabStripViewController) -> [UIViewController] {
return [MyEmbeddedViewController(), MySecondEmbeddedViewController()]
}
The method above is the only method declared in
PagerTabStripDataSource
protocol. We don't need to explicitly conform to it since base pager class already does it.
Provide information to show in each indicator
Every UIViewController that will appear within the PagerTabStrip needs to provide either a title or an image.
In order to do so they should conform to IndicatorInfoProvider
by implementing func indicatorInfo(for pagerTabStripController: PagerTabStripViewController) -> IndicatorInfo
which provides the information required to show the PagerTabStrip menu (indicator) associated with the view controller.
class MyEmbeddedViewController: UITableViewController, IndicatorInfoProvider {
func indicatorInfo(for pagerTabStripController: PagerTabStripViewController) -> IndicatorInfo {
return IndicatorInfo(title: "My Child title")
}
}
For a detailed step by step guide about how to use the library, please check out this community blog post.
That's it! We're done! ๐ป๐ป
Customization
Pager Behaviour
The pager indicator can be updated progressive as we swipe or at once in the middle of the transition between the view controllers.
By setting up pagerBehaviour
property we can choose how the indicator should be updated.
public var pagerBehaviour: PagerTabStripBehaviour
public enum PagerTabStripBehaviour {
case Common(skipIntermediteViewControllers: Bool)
case Progressive(skipIntermediteViewControllers: Bool, elasticIndicatorLimit: Bool)
}
Default Values:
// Twitter Type
PagerTabStripBehaviour.Common(skipIntermediteViewControllers: true)
// Segmented Type
PagerTabStripBehaviour.Common(skipIntermediteViewControllers: true)
// Bar Type
PagerTabStripBehaviour.Progressive(skipIntermediteViewControllers: true, elasticIndicatorLimit: true)
// ButtonBar Type
PagerTabStripBehaviour.Progressive(skipIntermediteViewControllers: true, elasticIndicatorLimit: true)`
As you might have noticed Common
and Progressive
enumeration cases has skipIntermediteViewControllers
and elasticIndicatorLimit
associated values.
skipIntermediteViewControllers
allows us to skip intermediate view controllers when a tab indicator is tapped.
elasticIndicatorLimit
allows us to tension the indicator when we reach a limit, I mean when we try to move forward from last indicator or move back from first indicator.
PagerTabStripDelegate & PagerTabStripIsProgressiveDelegate
Normally we don't need to implement these protocols because each pager type already conforms to it in order to properly update its indicator. Anyway there may be some scenarios when overriding a method come come in handy.
public protocol PagerTabStripDelegate: class {
func updateIndicator(for viewController: PagerTabStripViewController, fromIndex: Int, toIndex: Int)
}
public protocol PagerTabStripIsProgressiveDelegate : PagerTabStripDelegate {
func updateIndicator(for viewController: PagerTabStripViewController, fromIndex: Int, toIndex: Int, withProgressPercentage progressPercentage: CGFloat, indexWasChanged: Bool)
}
Again, The method invoked by the library depends on the
pagerBehaviour
value.
ButtonBar Customization
settings.style.buttonBarBackgroundColor: UIColor?
// buttonBar minimumInteritemSpacing value, note that button bar extends from UICollectionView
settings.style.buttonBarMinimumInteritemSpacing: CGFloat?
// buttonBar minimumLineSpacing value
settings.style.buttonBarMinimumLineSpacing: CGFloat?
// buttonBar flow layout left content inset value
settings.style.buttonBarLeftContentInset: CGFloat?
// buttonBar flow layout right content inset value
settings.style.buttonBarRightContentInset: CGFloat?
// selected bar view is created programmatically so it's important to set up the following 2 properties properly
settings.style.selectedBarBackgroundColor = UIColor.blackColor()
settings.style.selectedBarHeight: CGFloat = 5
// each buttonBar item is a UICollectionView cell of type ButtonBarViewCell
settings.style.buttonBarItemBackgroundColor: UIColor?
settings.style.buttonBarItemFont = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(18)
// helps to determine the cell width, it represent the space before and after the title label
settings.style.buttonBarItemLeftRightMargin: CGFloat = 8
settings.style.buttonBarItemTitleColor: UIColor?
// in case the barView items do not fill the screen width this property stretch the cells to fill the screen
settings.style.buttonBarItemsShouldFillAvailiableWidth = true
// only used if button bar is created programmatically and not using storyboards or nib files as recommended.
public var buttonBarHeight: CGFloat?
Important: Settings should be called before viewDidLoad
is called.
override func viewDidLoad() {
self.settings.style.selectedBarHeight = 2
self.settings.style.selectedBarBackgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
super.viewDidLoad()
}
Update cells when selected indicator changes
We may need to update the indicator cell when the displayed view controller changes. The following function properties help to accomplish that. Depending on our pager pagerBehaviour
value we will have to set up changeCurrentIndex
or changeCurrentIndexProgressive
.
public var changeCurrentIndex: ((oldCell: ButtonBarViewCell?, newCell: ButtonBarViewCell?, animated: Bool) -> Void)?
public var changeCurrentIndexProgressive: ((oldCell: ButtonBarViewCell?, newCell: ButtonBarViewCell?, progressPercentage: CGFloat, changeCurrentIndex: Bool, animated: Bool) -> Void)?
Let's see an example:
changeCurrentIndexProgressive = { (oldCell: ButtonBarViewCell?, newCell: ButtonBarViewCell?, progressPercentage: CGFloat, changeCurrentIndex: Bool, animated: Bool) -> Void in
guard changeCurrentIndex == true else { return }
oldCell?.label.textColor = UIColor(white: 1, alpha: 0.6)
newCell?.label.textColor = .whiteColor()
if animated {
UIView.animateWithDuration(0.1, animations: { () -> Void in
newCell?.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.0, 1.0)
oldCell?.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(0.8, 0.8)
})
}
else {
newCell?.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1.0, 1.0)
oldCell?.transform = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(0.8, 0.8)
}
}
Bar Type Customization
settings.style.barBackgroundColor: UIColor?
settings.style.selectedBarBackgroundColor: UIColor?
// barHeight is only set up when the bar is created programmatically and not using storyboards or xib files as recommended.
settings.style.barHeight: CGFloat = 5
Twitter Type Customization
settings.style.dotColor = UIColor(white: 1, alpha: 0.4)
settings.style.selectedDotColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
settings.style.portraitTitleFont = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(18)
settings.style.landscapeTitleFont = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(15)
settings.style.titleColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
Segmented Type Customization
settings.style.segmentedControlColor: UIColor?
Requirements
- iOS 8.0+
- Xcode 9.3+
Examples
Follow these 3 steps to run Example project: Clone XLPagerTabStrip repository, open XLPagerTabStrip workspace and run the Example project.
Installation
CocoaPods
CocoaPods is a dependency manager for Cocoa projects.
To install XLPagerTabStrip, simply add the following line to your Podfile:
pod 'XLPagerTabStrip', '~> 8.0'
Carthage
Carthage is a simple, decentralized dependency manager for Cocoa.
To install XLPagerTabStrip, simply add the following line to your Cartfile:
github "xmartlabs/XLPagerTabStrip" ~> 8.0
FAQ
How to change the visible child view controller programmatically
PagerTabStripViewController
provides the following methods to programmatically change the visible child view controller:
func moveToViewController(at index: Int)
func moveToViewController(at index: Int, animated: Bool)
func moveTo(viewController: UIViewController)
func moveTo(viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool)
How to migrate from Swift 2 to Swift 3
Check out our migration guide
Author
Change Log
This can be found in the CHANGELOG.md file.