how to change front color of navigation bar title

Question

I am using navigation controller in my application and want to change title color of navigationBar.

I am doing so using below code

NSDictionary *dic = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor grayColor],UITextAttributeTextColor,nil];
    [self.navController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:dic];

One more thing I am using ARC xcode 4.2 and this code is placed on appdelegate only

It is working fine in ios 4+ but not working on below versions.

Please help me how to do this from single code on appdelegate

The code you post is for iOS 5, if you want it to work on iSO 4 you won't be able to do it in a single line of code in the appdelegate. — rckoenes, Jan 06 '12 at 09:59
this question is already answered in link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/599405/iphone-navigation-bar-title-text-color — Anil Kothari, Jan 06 '12 at 10:10

score 17 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

I was just looking for the same thing and found Alex R. R.'s easy solution using iOS 5:

NSDictionary *navbarTitleTextAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                            [UIColor whiteColor],UITextAttributeTextColor, 
                                            [UIColor blackColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor, 
                                            [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(-1, 0)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset, nil];

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:navbarTitleTextAttributes];

Reference: iPhone Navigation Bar Title text color

Zoleas · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-24T15:58:18.920

You can recreate the titleView like that in your viewcontroller:

UILabel * titleView = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectZero];
titleView.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
titleView.font = [UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:20.0];
titleView.shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithWhite:1.0 alpha:1.0];
titleView.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0.0f, 1.0f);
titleView.textColor = [UIColor redColor]; // Your color here
self.navigationItem.titleView = titleView;
[titleView sizeToFit];
[titleView release];

the other parameters are those wich are used in the native titleView.

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Please look at Max Strater's answer below to have a more recent solution.

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score 7 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 31 '13 at 17:51

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After iOS 5, just do this :

    nav1.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor whiteColor] forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor];

edited Oct 31 '13 at 17:51

Scott Solmer

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answered Oct 31 '13 at 17:22

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score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 21 '14 at 16:57

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In iOS 7, just use:

self.navController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = @{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]};

Change [UIColor whiteColor] with whatever text color you want.

answered Jul 21 '14 at 16:57

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Jan 05 '14 at 23:31

in iOS 7 this is how you can change the color of Navbar title/text:

UIColor *red = [UIColor colorWithRed:254.0f/255.0f green:0.0f/255.0f blue:0.0f/255.0f alpha:1.0];

NSMutableDictionary *navBarTextAttributes = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithCapacity:1];

[navBarTextAttributes setObject:red forKey:NSForegroundColorAttributeName ];

self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = navBarTextAttributes;

how to change front color of navigation bar title

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Please look at Max Strater's answer below to have a more recent solution.