Iphone UITabBarItems titles overlap

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, there is no way to do what you want to do easily.

You could build some of the name string into your icon image. This will of course force you to internationalize your icon images, and you will also end up with the blue coloring in some of your text.

You could have no titles at all, and overlay your font-scaled title by drawing on the containing view. Note that when there is no title in the tab bar item, the following page will also have no title in the title bar.

Better by far, if you can do it, is to shorten the names. I know this is tough in German, but surely there must be alternatives.

I hope that Apple improves this in 4.0, but as those fonts are already fairly small, I sort of doubt it.