How to Hide Specific Ionic Tabs in Angular

How to Hide Specific Ionic Tabs in Angular? It turns out ionic does not support this functionality by default although I think it should, but luckily it’s not that complicated.

Here are the 3 simple steps:

1. In your tabs.html add this ng-class

<ion-tabs ng-class="{'tabs-item-hide': hideTabs}">

</ion-tabs>

2. Add ‘hide-tabs’ in your views where you want to hide the tabs

<ion-view hide-tabs> 

</ion-view>

3. In your app.js add the directive to hide tabs

.directive('hideTabs', function($rootScope) {
    return {
        restrict: 'A',
        link: function($scope, $el) {
            $rootScope.hideTabs = true;
            $scope.$on('$destroy', function() {
                $rootScope.hideTabs = false;
            });
        }
    };
})

The hide-tabs directive will hide the tab on whichever ion-view you set it to.

iTunes Apple Music Confusing Tabs Layout

New iTunes has a lot of new problems since they added “apple music”. My biggest issue is that I don’t know which one of the main tabs I should use to search “Apple Music”. I guess there is no difference between the first 6, they all let you search for your music as well as “apple music”. But if you use “iTunes Store” tab it doesn’t let you search “apple music” or give you an explanation why.

Screen Shot 2015-07-16 at 11.02.19 PMIf it doesn’t find it in my music it should automatically search “apple music” especially since I’m a subscriber. But instead it offers me a link to search the iTunes store to purchase the music…awesome.

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If you do happen to search the store for Drake for example you’ll get to an artist page that will not let you stream the music you’re subscribed to. You have to leave and do another search on any of the other 6 tabs which you can pick randomly I guess. Also, tabs in popups? Wow. Awesome.

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If you click play on this page you only get 90 seconds of each song. Why would I wanna buy a song if I’m an apple music subscriber? Oh, to burn a CD I guess…

iPhone Nap Alarms Mess

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When you use Siri to set nap alarms (e.g “Wake me up in 20 min”) you end up with a new alarm for each nap. But when are you going to need an alarm for 9:01PM again? Also, you can only delete alarms one at a time. No thanks.