UITabBarController unselected icon image tint

Question

I have a UITabBarController that I am trying to modify. Right now the UNselected tab icon images are default gray. I know that you cant change the tint of these UNselected

Answer 1

[[UIImage imageNamed:@"white_stats.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];

This isn't saving the image anywhere. Change it to:

UIImage *myImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"white_stats.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];

And this:

[self.tabBarItem initWithTitle:[nil]image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"white_stats.png"]selectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"white_stats.png"]];

nil isn't an object (it doesn't go in square brackets). Change this to:

[self.tabBarItem initWithTitle:nil image:myImage selectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"white_stats.png"]];

Alternatively, you can technically do this in one line:

[self.tabBarItem initWithTitle:nil image:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"white_stats.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal] selectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"white_stats.png"]];

But that is hard to read if you need to come back to it later, so don't do that.