UIColor of tab bar items unselected and changing tabbar color

Question

I see by using the setTintColor on a tabBar I can change the selected item color.

How do I change the unselected tabBarItem color and text?

If I can't change it easily, what is the default gray color used (in RGB)?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use images for tabBarItems.

To set unselected image use:

[tabBarItem setImage:(UIImage*)image]

To set selected image use:

[tabBarItem setSelectedImage:(UIImage*)image]

Text in tabBarItem is title of viewController thats connected to that tabBarItem.

You can find good icons for tabBar online, here's good one: https://icons8.com/

Answer 2

Swift 5.1, iOS 13

if #available(iOS 13.0, *) {

let appearance = UITabBarAppearance()
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.selected.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.normal.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.clear]
tabBar.standardAppearance = appearance

            } else {
                //Code for below iOS 13.0, which I'm currently looking into too.

            }