I have a UITabBar in the detail view of my navigation based application. I am storing text and images in a tableview and would like the user to be able to tap on a cell to hide the navigation controller and the tabbar for full screen viewing of the content.

I found this code for hiding the top bars, but it does not seem as easy to hide the tabbar.

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:YES];
 [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES];

Does anyone know how to do this?

This code does not work to hide the tabBar once the view is already loaded.

  yourTabViewController.hidesBottomBarWhenPushed = YES;