A: 

This is quite annoying. You will need to manipulate the custom views of navigationBar.titleView, and the barbuttonitem.customView. There you can use a UILabel with text of the desired background color. I don't think there is a more elegant solution.

notnoop  2009-07-15 22:43:05
that doesn't work for the back button. You can't have a custom view on top of that arrow.
erotsppa  2009-07-16 05:12:57
You can mock one in photoshop and use it as a subview. Personally I think you are better off not having tintColor be very light.
notnoop  2009-07-16 13:18:25

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