Have you seen apps like Instagram that have a custom color or raised image in the center tab? Here's a tutorial to create a similar effect in a BT app: http://jc-evans.com/tutorials/Tab_Bar_With_Custom_Center_Tab.pdf Thanks to the programmers at iDev Recipes for the initial code.

Excellent Fred

Fantastic! Thanks!

Bad ass!

Looks great. Just tried it and getting 9 errors. PDF copy seems to be throwing it off.

Thanks! will be using this in a couple of apps. it does make them stand out from others. i always notice it. Thanks for the git on idev recipies. see some other fun mods to try there. i was looking at a 'pull to refresh' from elsewhere. they seem to have one there. did you use that? also interesting you say wont work for COLORED tabs. I've not been able to get custom color tab bars to work in 2.0 yet. the functions in the cpanel to change it don't seem to work. have you got a custom color tab bar working on SH 2.0? I've seen/used it in 1.5, but not 2.0 yet.... again, thanks for sharing!

PSMDanny told me it wasn't working on the color tabs. I saw code to get the colored tabs to work, but haven't tried it. http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=3B451FF85017C1B39D079E4&command=isSearching&currentPage=1&topicTitle=tab%20bar&createdBy=&repliedBy=&minViews=-1&maxViews=-1&minReplies=-1&maxReplies=-1&forumCategory= The different tutorials the iDev guys have done are great. Look forward to trying some others out soon too.

Goblue, Are you importing any other files into the project. It seems super simple but i am throwing 9 errors every time i insert code. Anthony

No. I just tried it again using a fresh download and it worked perfectly. Copied the code directly from the pdf and pasted it into the BT_rotatingTabBarController.m What are the errors you're getting?

Screenshot http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35241128/Sample%20Screenshot/Screen%20Shot%202012-07-02%20at%2012.10.48%20PM.png

Yep, clearly copy/paste errors. The three "[self addCenterButtonWithImage..." statements should be single line statements. When you're pasting them in, you're getting carriage returns before the "highlightImage" statement. Similarly, on the other errors, look at the hyphenated words. There should not be any hyphenations. I'll fix the pdf to eliminate those.

Blue, So it looks like i was able to make corrections to.m file. But, now when i run app in simulator the raised center button doesn't show image that i dragged into project and called out in BT CP. I've added some screenshots http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35241128/Sample%20Screenshot/button%20image.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/35241128/Sample%20Screenshot/modified%20code.png Any Thoughts.

I'm not sure what you're doing there. You appear to have two images loading on that tab. Do not specify an image in your BT control panel for that tab. The button you create referenced by the "[self addCenterButtonWithImage:" is the image. The code you showed calls the image "camera_button_take.png." Did you name your image that?

By the way, your app looks good. I like the custom icons on the menu items.

I updated the pdf. Hopefully this will help with the copy/paste issues. http://jc-evans.com/tutorials/Tab_Bar_With_Custom_Center_Tab.pdf

Hi all, Thank MGoBlue really wonderfull!! @ Rad doc: If you go to layout/tabs -->tabbed layout make shure you have 5 tabs filled. On the 3rd tab there should be no info (or blank.png) in the icon field. After that hit save. Also make shure that in global themes (if you haven't made the modification mentioned here: http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=3B451FF85017C1B39D079E4&command=isSearching&currentPage=1&topicTitle=tab%20bar&createdBy=&repliedBy=&minViews=-1&maxViews=-1&minReplies=-1&maxReplies=-1&forumCategory= ) Navigation Bar / Status Bar -> Tab Bar Color = clear Should work this way. Best Regards, Danny

@GoBlue, @PSMDanny, Thank you very much for your help. Tab bar is working perfect now.Wonderful tutorial as always. Thanks again. Anthony

Thank you!!!! Amazing help!!!

Just finally got to adding this- Thanks again for the tutorial, really love how this customizes an app! good stuff... It's working but I am getting this Semantic Issue in regards to the first chunk of code you add. (Pretty sure I got all the carriage returns out) Instance method '-addCenterButtonWithImage:' not found (return type defaults to 'id') and in this code chunk the 2nd one has an extra colon at the end before nil // [self addCenterButtonWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"cameraTabBarItem.png"] highlightImage:nil]; [self addCenterButtonWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"camera_button_take.png"] highlightImage::nil]; // [self addCenterButtonWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"capture-button.png"] highlightImage:nil]; gotta remove that extra one before it compiles! also - BT 2.0 Self Hosted Tab Bar color fix hack? I tried that one listed here and no go. Works in 1.5 but not 2.0. Would love to get that working....