Change the color of a Tabbar on the iPhone

Question

Our designers want to change the color of the default UITabBar. Of course they do.

They want the background to be green, and the icon highlights to be white, as opposed to the black/blue default color scheme.

Anyone have any experience or suggestions to do this?

Answer 1

You have to subclass the UITabBarController and implement custom drawing.

Check out this SO question. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/571028/changing-tint-background-color-of-uitabbar

Answer 2

Be careful. If your app is going for submission to the app store, Apple may reject it if you're modifying their prescribed color scheme.

Answer 3

This can be done with a little private API hacking.

Answer 4

Theres a useful link here: http://duivesteyn.net/2010/01/16/iphone-custom-tabbar-background-image/