NavigationBar bar, tint, and title text color in iOS 8

Question

The background text in the status bar is still black. How do I change the color to white?

// io8, swift, Xcode 6.0.1 
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.blackColor()
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orangeColor()]

}

Answer 1

In AppDelegate.swift, in application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) I put the following:

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 234.0/255.0, green: 46.0/255.0, blue: 73.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.white]

(For Swift 4 or earlier use NSAttributedStringKey instead of NSAttributedString.Key)

For titleTextAttributes, the docs say:

You can specify the font, text color, text shadow color, and text shadow offset for the title in the text attributes dictionary

Answer 2

I like Alex's answer. If you want something quick to try out in a ViewController make sure you use

viewWillAppear()
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    var nav = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
    nav?.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
    nav?.tintColor = UIColor.white
    nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orange]
    //nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.orange] // swift 4.2
}

Answer 3

To change the color universally, this code should sit in the NavigationController's viewDidLoad function:

class NavigationController: UINavigationController, UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Status bar white font
        self.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
        self.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    }
}

To change it per ViewController you would have to reference the NavigationController from the ViewController and write similar lines in that ViewController's viewWillAppear function.

Answer 4

//In Swift 4

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]

Answer 5

To work in objective-c I have to put the following lines in viewWillAppear in my CustomViewController.

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO];

For Swift2.x this works:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.redColor()

For Swift3.x this works:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.red

Answer 6

To do this job in storyboard (Interface Builder Inspector)

With help of IBDesignable, we can add more options to Interface Builder Inspector for UINavigationController and tweak them on storyboard. First, add the following code to your project.

@IBDesignable extension UINavigationController {
    @IBInspectable var barTintColor: UIColor? {
        set {
            navigationBar.barTintColor = newValue
        }
        get {
            guard  let color = navigationBar.barTintColor else { return nil }
            return color
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var tintColor: UIColor? {
        set {
            navigationBar.tintColor = newValue
        }
        get {
            guard  let color = navigationBar.tintColor else { return nil }
            return color
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var titleColor: UIColor? {
        set {
            guard let color = newValue else { return }
            navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color]
        }
        get {
            return navigationBar.titleTextAttributes?["NSForegroundColorAttributeName"] as? UIColor
        }
    }
}

Then simply set the attributes for UINavigationController on storyboard.

Answer 7

If you want to set the tint color and bar color for the entire app, the following code can be added to AppDelegate.swift in

 func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        // Override point for customization after application launch.

    var navigationBarAppearace = UINavigationBar.appearance()

    navigationBarAppearace.tintColor = UIColor(red:1.00, green:1.00, blue:1.00, alpha:1.0)
    navigationBarAppearace.barTintColor = UIColor(red:0.76, green:0.40, blue:0.40, alpha:1.0)
    navigationBarAppearace.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
    return true
`

Navigation barTintColor and tintColor is set

Answer 8

Updated with swift 4

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.blue
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.black
}

Answer 9

In Swift 4.1 and Xcode 9.4.1

self.navigationItem.title = "your name"
let textAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor:UIColor.white]
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = textAttributes

Answer 10

Swift 4

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.orange
    navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.white
    navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
}

Answer 11

Swift 4.1

Add a func to viewDidLoad

override func viewDidLoad() {
  super.viewDidLoad()

  setup()
}   

In the setup() function add:

func setup() {

        navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
        navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .blackOpaque
        navigationItem.title = "YOUR_TITLE_HERE"
        navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = .black
        let attributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
        navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = attributes
    }

Answer 12

Swift 4.2 version of Albert's answer-

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 234.0/255.0, green: 46.0/255.0, blue: 73.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor : UIColor.white]

Answer 13

Setting text color of navigation bar title to white in Swift version 4.2:

navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]

Answer 14

For custom color to TitleText at NavigationBar, here a simple and short code for Swift 3:

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.white]

or

navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName :UIColor.white]

Answer 15

In Swift 3 this works:

navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.white
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.blue]

Answer 16

in Swift 4.2

var nav = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
nav?.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
nav?.tintColor = UIColor.white
nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orange]

Answer 17

Swift up through Swift 3.2 (not Swift 4.0)

    self.navigationController?.navigationItem.largeTitleDisplayMode = .always
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]

    // unconfirmed but I assume this works:
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.white
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.black