{"repo":"ryanashcraft/FabBar","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/ryanashcraft/FabBar","clone":"git clone https://github.com/ryanashcraft/FabBar.git","description":"A faithful recreation of the iOS 26 Liquid Glass tab bar with a tinted floating action button.","language":"Swift","stars":336,"topics":["ios","liquid-glass","swiftui","uikit"],"license":"MIT","category":"mobile-apps","readme_excerpt":"FabBar A faithful recreation of the iOS 26 Liquid Glass tab bar with a tinted floating action button. Warning: This library relies on internal UIKit view hierarchy manipulation that may break in future iOS updates. Use at your own risk. Why FabBar? Many apps have a primary action that users perform frequently: composing a social media post, logging a meal, creating a task. Placing this action at the bottom of the screen keeps it in the thumb zone and always visible, reducing friction for the most common user flow. With iOS 26's tab bar, developers can declare a tab with role: .search and abuse it as a primary action, but this approach has several issues: - You're lying to the system, it's not actually a search tab - VoiceOver reads it as a tab, not a button - Requires listening for tab changes and undoing them in SwiftUI, which is prone to race conditions - No ability to tint, so it looks like a search tab rather than a primary action Developers have another option: placing a custom floating action button above the tab bar. Typically, this is placed on the right side of the screen. However, with iOS 26's centered tab bar, this creates an awkward layout. With fewer than four tabs, there's negative space on either side of the bar, and placing a FAB on the trailing edge creates unbalanced empty space below it. And there's no way to customize the native tab bar's placement or sizing to work around this. FabBar provides one solution: recreate the tab bar entirely for full control.","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/ryanashcraft","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/ryanashcraft/FabBar/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}