Custom UITabBar background image not working in iOS 5 and later

Question

I have a simple piece of code that places a background image on the tabBar.

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Answer 1

I realize this has been solved, I'm posting this for others who had the same issue as me. I wanted to add a background image to the selected tab in a tabbar. Here is the solution:

[[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"tabbar.png"]];
[[UITabBar appearance] setSelectionIndicatorImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"tabbar-item.png"]];

The second line here adds a background image to the selected tab in a tabbar.