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

I had the same issue. But working with StoryBoards prevented me from changing anything in the code. Leaving the image empty in the storyboard removed this obstacle for me. However putting the initWithTitle in the viewWillAppear method of the tab's viewcontroller gave me odd behaviour. First getting the selected image required an additional click and images did not show up for the non-initial tabs.

For me fixing this was adding the following code to the AppDelegate in the DidFinishLoadingWithOptions (similar to 132206 and Amitabha):

NSArray * vcs = [(UITabBarController*)self.window.rootViewController viewControllers];
UIViewController *tab0 = [[(UINavigationController*)[vcs objectAtIndex:0] viewControllers] objectAtIndex:0];
tab0.title = NSLocalizedString(@"Time", nil);
tab0.tabBarItem =  [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:tab0.title image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Recents.png"] selectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"RecentsSolid.png"]];
UIViewController *tab1 = [[(UINavigationController*)[vcs objectAtIndex:1] viewControllers] objectAtIndex:0];
tab1.title = NSLocalizedString(@"Expense", nil);
tab1.tabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:tab1.title image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"Euro.png"] selectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"EuroSolid.png"]];