UITabBarController and selectedIndex

Question

didSelectViewController is not being fired when selectedIndex is set programmatically on UITabBarController object, when tapping manually everything works fine.

Answer 1

From my current work, it seems selectedIndex is updated only if the tabbed view hasn't been loaded before - perhaps the same applies to the responder chain "the other way around".

You might have more luck by switching tabs using selectedItem, at least I can identify the correct tab in the viewWillAppear in a tab's viewcontroller using the Item, but not the Index.

For you, the most obvious "fix" would be to also invoke didSelectViewController in every piece of code that changes the Index.