How can I change the tab bar selection color instead of blue?

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Normally tab bar selection color is blue in iPhone. Instead of that I want to change the color as brown. How can I change the tabbar selection color? Shall I need to create custom tabbar controller?

dupe of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/675433/custom-colors-in-uitabbar — rishi, May 14 '12 at 10:20

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 08 '13 at 15:19

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In case you want to use an image:

[self.tabBar setSelectionIndicatorImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"selected_tab.png"]];

In case you want to use a color:

[self.tabBar setSelectedImageTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];

answered Feb 08 '13 at 15:19

Jasper

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score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered May 14 '12 at 10:27

yes if you create customTabBar controller and switch background image of TabBar control then its work like system TabBar...you just create 5 different images and set it with selected tab on your TabBar Delegate method,here if you use graphics image then its also work.....means you use this tabbar globally in your many application :)

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '12 at 10:35

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tabBar.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

answered May 14 '12 at 10:35

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Its only changing the tab bar color, but i need to change selection color. – Subramanian P May 14 '12 at 10:45
I tried but its only changing the tab bar color, Not changing the selection color – Subramanian P May 14 '12 at 11:05
inside the viewdidload method – Subramanian P May 14 '12 at 11:36
set it where u are initializing settings of tabbar – Saad May 14 '12 at 11:38
@Subramanian did you find a solution ? Whatever I find, it changes the color of whole tab bar, I want to have different color for selected tab and different for unselected. – user1324887 Jul 28 '16 at 04:25

How can I change the tab bar selection color instead of blue?

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