I am maintaining a large iPad app written mostly in Objective-C that has survived several iOS releases. I ran into the situation where I needed the pre-iOS 11 tab bar appearance (with the icons above the titles instead of next to them) for a couple tab bars. My solution was to create a subclass of … Read more
Click the tab bar button within the view controller of the particular tab bar item you want to make prominent, Remove the text, just set the image inset top to -25 of the tab bar button. Like Below image After that goto assets, select the image you set in tab bar button, set the property … Read more
When working with storyboard its easy to setup the View Controller to hide the tabbar on push, on the destination View Controller just select this checkbox:
According to the Apple Human Interface Guidelines: @1x : about 25 x 25 (max: 48 x 32) @2x : about 50 x 50 (max: 96 x 64) @3x : about 75 x 75 (max: 144 x 96)
You need to set your image attributes property Render As to Original Image. To change this select your image from assets and in the Attributes Inspector set Render As property to Original Image like this.
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
There’s a project on github called BCTabBarController that aims to mimic the tab bar used in Twitter for iPhone. It’s got some of the things you’re looking for, and should give a great starting point.
Do you mean this one? Keep in mind, this only works for iOS5.0 or later. if ([self.tabBarItem respondsToSelector:@selector(setTitleTextAttributes:)]) { NSLog(@”*** Support method(iOS 5): setTitleTextAttributes:”); [self.tabBarItem setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [UIFont fontWithName:@”AmericanTypewriter” size:20.0f], UITextAttributeFont, [UIColor blackColor], UITextAttributeTextColor, [UIColor grayColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor, [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0.0f, 1.0f)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset, nil]]; } Apple’s documentation on customizing appearance: In iOS v5.0 and later, you can … Read more
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];
You need to use tabBarItem initWithTitle:image:selectedImage [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@”title” image:image selectedImage:imageSel]; in conjunction with changing the UIImage rendering mode: imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal or (to apply parent views template tint mask, this option is default for Tab bar Items unless you opt out with the above rendering mode) imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate here is a code sample for one tab bar … Read more