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

Here is a Swift solution for Swift-Guys :)

class CustomTabBar: UITabBar {

    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)

        let btnNames = ["Title1", "Title2", "Title3", "Title4"]

        for (item, name) in zip(items!, btnNames) {
            item.image = UIImage(named: "bar\(name)Btn")?.imageWithRenderingMode(.AlwaysOriginal)
            item.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "bar\(name)SelectedBtn")?.imageWithRenderingMode(.AlwaysOriginal)
            item.title = name
            item.setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blackColor()], forState: .Normal)
            item.setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.redColor()], forState: .Selected)
        }
    }

}

What is exactly going on here:

• Make array of btn titles and consider image file names to match them
• Make For loop over tab bar items and just created btn titles array
• Set barButtonItem's image and its selectedImage from the array
• Set title text from the array
• Set title text color for states .Normal and .Selected

Setting text colors part is important if you don't want to keep the item's title color gray for .Normal and blue for .Selected, as it is by default. This is often actual when you consider custom images for tab bar items.