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ronsinda
ronsinda

Reputation: 139

Change color of tab bar

I created an app in iOS 5 using Storyboard to lay out my screens. I have a tab bar controller and the bottom tab bar with 4 icons. I want to change the color from black to a graduated green. I can make a .png file, but can't figure out how to replace the black fill with my green fill.

I've seen some posts on code to do this but seems iOS 5 is different than if the device is running iOS4 and I can't figure out where to put the code.

Thx

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6748

Answers (4)

ElweTheFeared
ElweTheFeared

Reputation: 59

Here is what worked for me:

In AppDelegate.m I put the following code after // Override point for customization after application launch.

[[UITabBar appearance] setSelectedImageTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

Hope this helps :)

Upvotes: 4

enlyte
enlyte

Reputation: 2827

You can either set the color on the storyboard by selecting the root: Tab Bar View Controller, select the tab bar, and adjust the Background (or tint) color in the attributes inspector, or you can adjust the code with the barTintColor:

// Adjust the Color of the Tab Bar itself
self.tabBar.barTintColor = [UIColor redColor];

// Adjust the Color of the selected Icon in the Tab Bar
self.tabBar.tintColor = [Single single].singleThemeColorTint;

If you need to adjust the ALPHA too, I would use: 

UIColor *charcoal = [UIColor colorWithRed:66/255.0
                                            green:79/255.0
                                             blue:91/255.0
                                            alpha:1];
  	// For Tab Bar
    self.tabBar.barTintColor = charcoal;

	// For selected Item Highlight
    self.tabBar.tintColor = charcoal;

I created a View Controller File for the Tab Bar Story Board, and ran this code in ViewDidLoad{ }

Upvotes: 3

Vimal Venugopalan
Vimal Venugopalan

Reputation: 4091

If you have created your application using storyboard API, then you cannot support iOS4, they rely on new runtime classes which are not available there.

Upvotes: 0

iNeal
iNeal

Reputation: 1729

Here is the wonderful blog post of Ray WenderLich.

User Interface Customization in iOS5

http://www.raywenderlich.com/4344/user-interface-customization-in-ios-5

Upvotes: 0

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