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How can I change the text and icon colors for UITabBar and UITabBarItems in iOS 7? The default gray text seems dim and hard to read for unselected tabbar items. Ed Fernandez There are two things you need to do for this: 1) If you want to customize the TabBar itself, you need to set the barTintColor for the tabBarController: // this will generate a black tab bar tabBarController.tabBar.barTintColor = [UIColor blackColor]; // this will give selected icons and text your apps tint color tabBarController.tabBar.tintColor = appTintColor; // appTintColor is a UIColor * 2) Set the tabBarItem text

I'm trying to programmatically set the background image for a tabbar in my app. My code is as follows: RootViewController.h IBOutlet UITabBar *mainTabBar; IBOutlet UITabBarItem *settingsBarItem; IBOutlet UITabBarItem *infoBarItem; IBOutlet UITabBarItem *aboutBarItem; RootViewController.m -(void)viewDidLoad { UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"smallMenuBackground.png"]]; [mainTabBar insertSubview:imageView atIndex:0]; [imageView release]; [super viewDidLoad]; } This is not working for me. UPDATE UPDATE 23rd January 2012 Ok, I've made a bit of

I have a UITabBar in the detail view of my navigation based application. I am storing text and images in a tableview and would like the user to be able to tap on a cell to hide the navigation controller and the tabbar for full screen viewing of the content. I found this code for hiding the top bars, but it does not seem as easy to hide the tabbar. [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:YES]; [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:YES]; Does anyone know how to do this? This code does not work to hide the tabBar once the view is already loaded.