How to change navigation bar color in iOS 7 or 6?

Question

I want to change the color of the navigation bar color, but I\'m not sure whether or not I should change the tint or the background. I know iOS 7 is going for a more flat de

Answer 1

Based on posted answered, this worked for me:

/* check for iOS 6 or 7 */
if ([[self navigationController].navigationBar respondsToSelector:@selector(setBarTintColor:)]) {
    [[self navigationController].navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];

} else {
    /* Set background and foreground */
    [[self navigationController].navigationBar setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
    [self navigationController].navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [[NSDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor blackColor],UITextAttributeTextColor,nil];
}

Answer 2

If you want to have a solid color for your navigation bar in iOS 6 similar to iOS 7 use this:

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage alloc] init] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor greenColor]];

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in iOS 7 use the barTintColor like this:

navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor greenColor];

or

 [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBarTintColor:[UIColor greenColor]];

Answer 3

If you want to change a color of a navigation bar, use barTintColor property of it. In addition, if you set any color to tintColor of it, that affects to the navigation bar's item like a button.

FYI, you want to keep iOS 6 style bar, make a background image looks like previous style and set it.

For more detail, you can get more information from the following link:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userexperience/conceptual/TransitionGuide/AppearanceCustomization.html

Answer 4

In iOS7, if your navigation controller is contained in tab bar, splitview or some other container, then for globally changing navigationbar appearance use following method ::

[[UINavigationBar appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UITabBarController class],nil] setBarTintColor:[UIColor blueColor]];

Answer 5

I'm not sure about changing the tint vs the background color but this is how you change the tint color of the Navigation Bar:

Try this code..

[navigationController.navigationBar setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]; //Red as an example.

Answer 6

You can check iOS Version and simply set the tint color of Navigation bar.

if (SYSTEM_VERSION_LESS_THAN(@"7.0")) {
    self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.9529 green:0.4392 blue:0.3333 alpha:1.0];
}else{

    self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.9529 green:0.4392 blue:0.3333 alpha:1.0];
    self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
}