How do you change the TabBar Icon selected color in iOS8?

Question

A thorough search of SO is drawing up blanks for this issue.

All the previous answers recommend using setSelectedImageTintColor which has since been deprecated.

How can you change the color of your UITabBar Button Icon's/Item's when selected?

Answer 1

NSArray *itemArray = self.tabBar.items;

UITabBarItem *item0 =  [itemArray firstObject];

item0.image = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"tap_home_button"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];

item0.selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"tap_home_button_hightlighed"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];