How to change tab bar item text color

Question

How can I change the color of \"More..\" text in tabbar to match with its icon

Answer 1

This is easy , simply subclass UITabBarItem and assign it to be the class of your tab bar item in either storyboard or code. The below works perfectly for me.

import UIKit

class PPTabBarItem: UITabBarItem {
    required init?(coder aDecoder: NSCoder) {
        super.init(coder: aDecoder)
        commonInit()
    }
    override init() {
        super.init()
        commonInit()
    }

    func commonInit() {
        self.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(13), NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.blackColor()], forState: UIControlState.Normal)

        self.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont.systemFontOfSize(13), NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.yellowColor()], forState: UIControlState.Selected)
    }
}

skywinder's solution is good but it triggers global scope.