UITabBar not showing selected item images in ios 7

Question

The icons show fine in ios 6 but not in ios 7. I\'m setting the selected state in the viewController viewDidLoad method. When the user selects a tab bar item the image disap

Answer 1

You need to use tabBarItem initWithTitle:image:selectedImage

[[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"title" image:image selectedImage:imageSel];

in conjunction with changing the UIImage rendering mode:

imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal

or (to apply parent views template tint mask, this option is default for Tab bar Items unless you opt out with the above rendering mode)

imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate

here is a code sample for one tab bar item :-

UIImage *musicImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"music.png"];
UIImage *musicImageSel = [UIImage imageNamed:@"musicSel.png"];

musicImage = [musicImage imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
musicImageSel = [musicImageSel imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];

self.musicViewController.tabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Music" image:musicImage selectedImage:musicImageSel];

Hope this helps