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Marina Ganopolsky
933 Pointsstyling tab bar icons
While going through the styling tutorials, your code suggests using the following method to make sure that the selected icons on the tab bar stay white :
UITabBar * tabBar = tabBarcontroller.tabBar;
UITabBarItem * tabInbox = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:0];
[tabInbox setFinishedSelectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"inbox"] withFinishedUnselectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"inbox"]];
However, it appears that the setFinishedSelectedImage method is now deprecated. xCode suggests using the initWithTitle method, which I did :
[tabInbox initWithTitle:@"Inbox" image:[UIImage imageNamed:@"inbox"] selectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"inbox"]];
unfortunately, this doesn't get rid of the grey over the white icons like the deprecated method does. I would love any leads on how to properly implement this functionality without using deprecated methods.
thank you, Marina
2 Answers
Enara L. Otaegi
13,107 PointsHi, I just discovered how to do this and works fine for me. Hope it works for you, too.
//Customize Tab bar [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor whiteColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
UITabBarController *tabBarController = (UITabBarController *)self.window.rootViewController;
UITabBar *tabBar = tabBarController.tabBar;
UIImage *inboxImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"inbox"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
UIImage *friendsImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"friends"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
UIImage *cameraImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"camera"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
UITabBarItem *tabInbox = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:0];
UITabBarItem *tabFriends = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:1];
UITabBarItem *tabCamera = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:2];
tabInbox = [tabInbox initWithTitle:@"inbox" image:inboxImage selectedImage:inboxImage];
tabFriends = [tabFriends initWithTitle:@"friends" image:friendsImage selectedImage:friendsImage];
tabCamera = [tabCamera initWithTitle:@"camera" image:cameraImage selectedImage:cameraImage];
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsawesome! thanks for sharing this.
Enara L. Otaegi
13,107 PointsHappy to help :)
Kal K
13,332 Points:) thanks! that just help me out too! Ben Jakuben should update this issue in the notes section in the video
Jonathan Fernandez
8,325 PointsThanks so much for sharing this.. Awesome stuff and glad to learn from it! : D
Enara L. Otaegi
13,107 PointsThank you! I'm glad to see that this is helping :)
Thomas Oliver Bastable
Python Development Techdegree Graduate 29,026 PointsHuzzah, I would also like to jump on the thank you wagon! T'was stumped, and now I am un-stumped! Bravo!
Enara L. Otaegi
13,107 PointsI'm glad that it helped you get unstumped :)
Stone Preston
42,016 PointsStone Preston
42,016 Pointsis there not two different images? I would think there would be a white one for unselected and grey for selected, but it appears you are using the same image for both selected and unselected