tabBarItemHidden limitation when focused

[rochajulian]

Why it is needed?

Hey guys, I have a screen on my tab bar that I want to hide so I use the tabBarItemHidden prop. This works great until the route is focused because then the option doesn't hide the tab item anymore. This of course is specified in the docs. My question is as follows:

I read that this is a limitation on iOS. I am wondering if there is a clever workaround that you guys know of to avoid this behavior. In my app, and I can imagine in many others, we need the hidden tab bar item to remain hidden even if it gets focused.

Possible implementation

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Code sample

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[okwasniewski]

Hey, @rochajulian

There are no plans to omit the native limitation. You can restructure your navigator, for example, using a stack navigator that embeds two routes: 1. A screen where you need to have a hidden bottom bar (for example, login) and then a second screen that hosts the bottom tab navigator. This should solve all of the needs for hiding a tab bar.