Recently I’ve been using the PhoneGap NativeControls for the TabBar instead of jQuery’s buggy fixed footer implementation. When designing an App, you try very hard as a developer not to use fixed dimensions because if every rumor is correct, the next iDevice will have a larger screen (ain’t that always the case?). However, it can be hard to avoid at times. It is important to know the default size of the Nav and Tab Bars.

Here they are:

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Stephen Russell is a Mobile App developer and all around IT geek that spends his days running data centers and his nights coding. This site is the go to place for all of zSprawl's work and the infamous development blog. In his free time, he enjoys tinkering with web code, playing video games, and otherwise plotting to take over the Internets.