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

Now from iOS10 one can use

@property (nonatomic, readwrite, copy, nullable) UIColor *unselectedItemTintColor

to change default color for TabBarItem image and text at unselected state.

Thus, the pair of properties tintColor and unselectedItemTintColor gives us full control on items colors.