uitabbaritem

How can I change the text and icon colors for tabBarItems in iOS 7?

There are two things you need to do for this: 1) If you want to customize the TabBar itself, you need to set the barTintColor for the tabBarController: // this will generate a black tab bar tabBarController.tabBar.barTintColor = [UIColor blackColor]; // this will give selected icons and text your apps tint color tabBarController.tabBar.tintColor = appTintColor; … Read more

Changing tab bar item image and text color iOS

From UITabBarItem class docs: By default, the actual unselected and selected images are automatically created from the alpha values in the source images. To prevent system coloring, provide images with UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal. The clue is not whether you use UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal, the important thing is when to use it. To prevent the grey color for unselected items, … Read more

Changing font size of tabbaritem

I recommend a better way: [yourTabBarItem setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextColor, [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0,0)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset, [UIFont fontWithName:@”Helvetica” size:18.0], UITextAttributeFont, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

IOS 8 Tab Bar Item Background Colour

In your tabBarController, you can set the default UITabBar tintColor, barTintColor, selectionIndicatorImage (cheating a bit here) and renderingMode of the images, see comments below: class MyTabBarController: UITabBarController, UINavigationControllerDelegate { … override func viewDidLoad() { … // Sets the default color of the icon of the selected UITabBarItem and Title UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.redColor() // Sets the … Read more