Tabbar with custom colors

Question

I want to create a Tabbar application.My basic necessity is that i want the color of tab bar icons to be red instead of the default blue color.(i.e the selected tab icon has

Answer 1

You will have to create your own "tab bar" controller. Unfortunately the "blue" color you are talking about is actually just an alpha level, not a shade of blue.

Answer 2

As nicktmro noted, you have to customize everything.

Check this previous answer: Changing Tint / Background color of UITabBar (check a couple of answers on this one, a later answer fixes problems with the accepted answer)

And this blog post: iPhone TabBar Custom Background Image

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Here's another one that looks clean and easy:

Custom colors in UITabBar

Be sure to read the comment on the answer.