Get the right color in iOS7 translucent navigation bar

Question

How can I get the right coloring for my translucent navigation bars in iOS 7? The navigation bar just adjusts the given color to a much brighter one. Changing brightness or

Answer 1

Here is another way to get right color of translucent navigation bar in iOS 7.x and later. For some colors it's possible to find the optimal bar tint color that makes translucent bar to appear with color that matches the desired one.

For example, for Facebook color that is rgb: 65,96,156 or #41609c the optimal color is #21458c. The following code set all navigation bars in the app to be of Facebook color with native cocoa-touch API only:

UIColor* barColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.129995 green:0.273324 blue:0.549711 alpha:1.0]; // #21458c to make bars actual color match the #41609c color.
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBarTintColor:barColor];

The only limitation of the method is that optimized color can't be found for every possible color. Usually this is not possible for dark colors.

I made an BarTintColorOptimizer utility that should be run on the device to search for optimized bar color for any color you enter.