Loading views in tabs upon request instead of loading all views when app starts

[MattTrout]

Hi all,

Question regarding loading views in a Tab bar based app. I have 5 different tabs and when the app launches initially, all the views load up at once, causing the app to be slow when launched until they load, then everythings good, and when you go to each one of these different tabs, the views are already there.

Is there a way that I can have these individual views inside each tab load when the tab has been pressed to be viewed instead of all loading at once when it starts? I've been trying to find a solution to this but I guess maybe I'm not asking the right questions....

Sorry if I explained it kind of weird. As always, help is very much appreciated!

[BrianSlick]

I don't know definitively, but I don't think so. If you use IB, the view controllers will be created automatically. In code, you have to create the view controllers in order to add them to the tab bar.

What you can do is restructure when your view controllers do things. Move the guts into, for example, viewWillAppear.