UITabBarController Active Tab Masking Color?

Question

Quick question, when you are implementing a UITabBarController and you are adding image icons to the tabs is there a way to override the blue active masking color, can you specify your own gradient or a custom image for the background grad?

cheers Gary

Answer 1

If you want complete control you’ll have to roll your own UITabBarController. UITabBar’s -drawRect: could be overridden to provide a custom background but the bar items are pretty much non-customizable.