Default tab bar item colors using swift Xcode 6

Question

Environment: - Xcode 6 beta 4 - Swift language - iOS Tabbed Application (default xCode project)

How can I change the default grey color of the tabs to something else

Answer 1

Swift 3.0

To change the default color for tab bar images, Add code bellow to viewDidLoad method of your TabBarController class:

    for item in self.tabBar.items! as [UITabBarItem] {
        if let image = item.image {
            item.image = image.imageWithColor(tintColor: UIColor.yellow).withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
        }
    }

Update the imageWithColor extension. Used with the above method and should be placed outside of your TabBarController class:

extension UIImage {
 func imageWithColor(tintColor: UIColor) -> UIImage {
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(self.size, false, self.scale)

    let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()! as CGContext
    context.translateBy(x: 0, y: self.size.height)
    context.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0);
    context.setBlendMode(CGBlendMode.normal)

    let rect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.size.width, height: self.size.height)
    context.clip(to: rect, mask: self.cgImage!)
    tintColor.setFill()
    context.fill(rect)

    let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()! as UIImage
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

    return newImage
 }
}