How can I change the text and icon colors for tabBarItems in iOS 7?

Question

How can I change the text and icon colors for UITabBar and UITabBarItems in iOS 7? The default gray text seems dim and hard to read for unselected tabbar items.

Answer 1

You try it

for (UITabBarItem *item in self.tabBarController.tabBar.items) {
        item.image = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"youimage.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];

        [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                                           [UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,
                                                           nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

        item.selectedImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"youimage.png"];
    }