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Hotwire Native for Rails Developers
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Hotwire Native for Rails Developers

by Joe Masilotti
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
270 pages
6h 16m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Chapter 4Add a Native Tab Bar

Tab bars are one of the most common navigation patterns in native apps. Open up a few apps on your phone. Odds are a good portion of them have a tab bar at the bottom of the screen. Because they are so prevalent, users understand how to use them and expect them in their apps.

For example, this row of buttons along the bottom of an iOS app is the tab bar. In the built-in Clock app, each tab is a different use case or feature. World Clock is used to check what time it is in different time zones, and Timers is used to manage, well, timers.

Two iOS simulators using the Clock app - the left showing the World Clock tab with times in different cities and the right showing the Timers tab with a paused timer for 30 minutes.

This chapter covers how to add tabs to your Hotwire Native apps. You’ll clean ...

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