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

It is easy and clean solution of category for UITabBar Items.

Just create category and use the Runtime Attribute and refer it from category like below.

#import "UITabBarItem+CustomTabBar.h"

@implementation UITabBarItem (CustomTabBar)

-(void)setValue:(id)value forKey:(NSString *)key {
    if([key isEqualToString:@"tabtitle"]){
        if([value isEqualToString:@"contacts"]) {
            [self setSelectedImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"contacts-selected"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal]];
        } else if([value isEqualToString:@"chat"]) {
            [self setSelectedImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"chat-selected"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal]];
        } else if([value isEqualToString:@"groupchat"]) {
            [self setSelectedImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"groupchat-selected"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal]];
        } else if([value isEqualToString:@"settings"]) {
            [self setSelectedImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"settings-selected"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal]];
        }
    }
    [self setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Roboto-Regular" size:12.0f], NSFontAttributeName, [UIColor grayColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
}

@end