How can I change inactive icon/text color on iOS 7 tab bar? The one in gray color.
In every first ViewController for each TabBar:
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
// changing the unselected image color, you should change the selected image
// color if you want them to be different
self.tabBarItem.selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"yourImage_selectedImage"]
imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
self.tabBarItem.image = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"yourImage_image"]
imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
}
The clue of this code is 'UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal':
Rendering Modes by Apple Documentation:
UIImageRenderingModeAutomatic, // Use the default rendering mode for the context where the image is used
UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal, // Always draw the original image, without treating it as a template
UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate, // Always draw the image as a template image, ignoring its color information
To change text color:
In AppDelegate:
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
// Add this if you only want to change Selected Image color
// and/or selected image text
[[UITabBar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];
// Add this code to change StateNormal text Color,
[UITabBarItem.appearance setTitleTextAttributes:
@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor greenColor]}
forState:UIControlStateNormal];
// then if StateSelected should be different, you should add this code
[UITabBarItem.appearance setTitleTextAttributes:
@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor purpleColor]}
forState:UIControlStateSelected];
return YES;
}