My UITabBarController's didSelectViewController method is not getting called?

Question

Here is my code stub for my app-delegate.m -- it never gets called.

- (void)tabBarController:(UITabBarController *)tabBarController didSelectViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController {
    NSLog(@"%s", __FUNCTION__);
}

It is defined in this app-delegate.h

@interface OrioleAppDelegate : NSObject <UIApplicationDelegate, UITabBarControllerDelegate> {
    UIWindow *window;
    UITabBarController *tabBarController;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UIWindow *window;
@property (nonatomic, retain) IBOutlet UITabBarController *tabBarController;

@end

Answer 1

I added the following tabBarController.delegate = self; and all is well. I hope this is helpful to others.

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application {

    // Add the tab bar controller's current view as a subview of the window
    tabBarController.delegate = self;
    [window addSubview:tabBarController.view];
}

Answer 2

Did you make a connection between your UITabBarController and your application delegate?

- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(UIApplication *)application
{
     ...
     tabBarController.delegate = self;
     ...
}