I have a project that has 8 different areas, e.g, travel, weather, etc. The front page is going to have 8 different icons; they will navigate to each section. I will then need something like a tab bar for 4–8 options within each of the above 8 areas.
Apples guidelines suggest that not having a standard tab bar across the whole is a no-no, but having 25 options on a uniform tab bar would be a UX nightmare if I were to go this route.
Does anybody have any ideas on what else I could use, or know if apple will actually reject the app if I use a different tabbar for each section of the app?
Answer
Working on the assumption that you've addressed the information architecture issues and determined that there are infact this many primary and secondary navigation options required for the application there are a few routes you can take for displaying multiple options in a tab-panel (or similar control).
The first example here is from Snapseed:
Here they've taken the decision to have a scrollable list of options in place of the traditional tab panel. Considering Apple gave this app away in their 12 days of Christmas it's probably save to assume they allow this sort of navigation in their apps (but you never can be sure about these things!).
The second option is from the actual Apple iPod Music app:
where they give you the option to drag your 'favourite' menu options to the primary nav at the bottom, and leave the lesser used ones within the 'More' link.
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