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iOS Implementing Designs for iPhone Customizing Table View Controllers Styling the Tab Bar

Michael Hulet
Michael Hulet
47,912 Points

Deprecation Warning

@Ben Jakuben: There's a little deprecation warning at around 5:40 in the attached video. It comes when we call the method setFinishedSelectedImage:withFinishedUnselectedImage:. This method was deprecated in iOS 7.0. Unfortunately, the new way of doing it involves separating this out into 2 lines.

The old code (for one UITabBarItem) is this:

[tabInbox setFinishedSelectedImage:@"inbox" withFinishedUnselectedImage:@"inbox"];

However, the new, non-deprecated code to do the same thing looks like this:

tabInbox.image = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"inbox"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
tabInbox.selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"inbox"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];

Unfortunately, as you can see, you now must split setting the image and selectedImage properties into 2 separate lines, and with each assignment, you must specify the UIImageRenderingMode for each image

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Anthony Martinez
Anthony Martinez
13,111 Points

Great post. This deprecation warning should be included in the teachers notes of the lecture - Xcode pops up an alert bubble to let users know - students should get a heads up to avoid confusion :)