ios Changing UIScrollView scrollbar color to different colors

Question

How can we change color of UIScrollview\'s scroll indicator to something like blue, green etc.

I know we can change it to white, black. But other then these colors.

Answer 1

Based on the answer of @Alex (https://stackoverflow.com/a/58415249/3876285), I'm posting just a little improvement to change the color of scroll indicators.

extension UIScrollView {

    var scrollIndicators: (horizontal: UIView?, vertical: UIView?) {

        guard self.subviews.count >= 2 else {
            return (horizontal: nil, vertical: nil)
        }

        func viewCanBeScrollIndicator(view: UIView) -> Bool {
            let viewClassName = NSStringFromClass(type(of: view))
            if viewClassName == "_UIScrollViewScrollIndicator" || viewClassName == "UIImageView" {
                return true
            }
            return false
        }

        let horizontalScrollViewIndicatorPosition = self.subviews.count - 2
        let verticalScrollViewIndicatorPosition = self.subviews.count - 1

        var horizontalScrollIndicator: UIView?
        var verticalScrollIndicator: UIView?

        let viewForHorizontalScrollViewIndicator = self.subviews[horizontalScrollViewIndicatorPosition]
        if viewCanBeScrollIndicator(view: viewForHorizontalScrollViewIndicator) {
            horizontalScrollIndicator = viewForHorizontalScrollViewIndicator.subviews[0]
        }

        let viewForVerticalScrollViewIndicator = self.subviews[verticalScrollViewIndicatorPosition]
        if viewCanBeScrollIndicator(view: viewForVerticalScrollViewIndicator) {
            verticalScrollIndicator = viewForVerticalScrollViewIndicator.subviews[0]
        }
        return (horizontal: horizontalScrollIndicator, vertical: verticalScrollIndicator)
    }

}

If you don't add .subviews[0], you will get the deeper view and when you try to change the color of the indicator, this will appear with a weird white effect. That's because there is another view in front of it:

By adding .subviews[0] to each indicator view, once you try to change the color by calling:

override func scrollViewDidScroll(_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
    DispatchQueue.main.async() {
        scrollView.scrollIndicators.vertical?.backgroundColor = UIColor.yourcolor
    }
}

You will access to the first view and change the color properly:

Kudos to @Alex who posted a great solution