A humble introduction to using coordinator pattern with UITabBarController

Writing a clean code can be a bit of a challenge. Writing a code that’s readable, extendable and maintainable is something we always strive for.

In this article I will explain how to use the coordinator pattern with UITabBarController in Swift, I will use Swinject as a dependency injection framework.

First, let’s start by writing our basic coordinator protocol.

Let’s create our concrete coordinators:

Let’s create our MainTabBarController that extends from UITabBarController

let’s wire it all together

And that’s it, the full source code can be downloaded from here