iPhone - tab bar kind of functionality

I want to have colored images (not gray ones) in UITabbar view. But its not possible. Also each tab, we can associate one view controller. The view controller can be a view or a navigation view or a table view. (Its simple to handle)

So, I decided to place 3 different buttons at the bottom of the view. On click of each button, I want to show different view controllers (in the space above 3 buttons). I don't want to use something like

[self.view addSubview:viewController.view];

Do you want me to create 3 different vie开发者_如何转开发w-controllers or views or something else and achieve the functionality of tab bar.

Thanks in advance.

Instead of creating tab bar functionality it will easy to handle creating custom tab bar class with Images. read this SO Post

In this you set the image for background color using

([[UIColor alloc] initWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"defaultad.png"]])