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.
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];
Apple added tab bar customization in iOS 5, and now this kind of stuff is trivial. Prior to this it was a huge hack, and not recommended. Here’s how to do a completely custom tab bar: // custom icons UITabBarItem *item = [[UITabBarItem alloc] init]; item.title = @”foo”; // setting custom images prevents the OS … Read more
Try adjusting tabBarItem‘s imageInsets (for moving the icon image) and setting the controllers title to nil (so no title is displayed). Put something like this to -init or -viewDidLoad method in view controller: Objective-C self.tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(6, 0, -6, 0); self.title = nil; Swift self.tabBarItem.imageInsets = UIEdgeInsets(top: 6, left: 0, bottom: -6, right: 0) self.title … Read more
Add Runtime Color attribute named “tintColor” from StoryBoard. This is working(for Xcode 8 and above). if you want unselected color.. you can add unselectedItemTintColor too.