Change TabBarItem title font to bold in Swift for iOS

Question

I\'m trying to set the font weight of a selected tab bar item to bold font. It seems as it has no effect. Any idea what is wrong. forState: .Normal works as exp

Answer 1

I've faced the same issue when tried to change font of selected item. Looks like titleTextAttributes' font parameter is only useful when setting them to normal state. That's why I implemented UITabBarControllerDelegate where I update attributes for currently selected item. You should call updateSelection() method after UITabBarControllers loadView() too. Or you can call updateSelection() method in overridden selectedItem setter.

extension TabBarController: UITabBarControllerDelegate {

  func tabBarController(_ tabBarController: UITabBarController, didSelect viewController: UIViewController) {
    updateSelection()
  }

  func updateSelection() {
    let normalFont = Fonts.Lato.light.withSize(10)
    let selectedFont = Fonts.Lato.bold.withSize(10)
    viewControllers?.forEach {
      let selected = $0 == self.selectedViewController
      $0.tabBarItem.setTitleTextAttributes([.font: selected ? selectedFont : normalFont], for: .normal)
    }
  }

}