iOS 7/8 how to set tab bar text color

Question

I have set color for tab bar in app delegate:

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

It works perfect, but I also need to set text color separately. I want my image to be tint with red color, but the text has to be white color.

Is this possible to make?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8412010/how-to-change-the-color-of-text-in-uitabbaritem-in-ios-5 — soulshined, Dec 22 '14 at 18:56

score 5 · Answer 1 · edited May 10 '17 at 20:57

to change the color of uitabbaritem used setTitleTextAttributes I hope this code help you :

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [[uicolor whitecolor] }
       forState:UIControlStateSelected];
    [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor] }
     forState:UIControlStateNormal];

to change the image tintcolor :

[[UITabBar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor redcolor]];

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:31

The answer at: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18734795/860343 covers most of the edits you may need to do for the tab bar items.

In short here is the code:

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName : [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:10.0f],
                                                NSForegroundColorAttributeName : appTintColor
                                                } forState:UIControlStateSelected];


// doing this results in an easier to read unselected state then the default iOS 7 one

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName : [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:10.0f],
                                                    NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor colorWithRed:.5 green:.5 blue:.5 alpha:1]
                                                    } forState:UIControlStateNormal];

iOS 7/8 how to set tab bar text color

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