Icons are not showing in the UITab bar

Question

Icons are not showing in the UITab bar instead some rectangles are showing. What could be the problem?

My code:

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
   self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
  if (self) {
    self.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"poolmate.png"];
}
return self;
}

Answer 1

You never initialized your tabBarItem . Try this:

- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil
{
    self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil];
    if (self) {
        self.tabBarItem = [self tabBarItem];
        self.tabBarItem.image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"poolmate.png"];
    }
    return self;
}