Transparent UIToolbar

Question

I wrote the following code to make my toolbar transparent.

[mtoolbar setBackgroundColor:[UIColor clearColor]];

How do I make UIToolbar

Answer 1

Setting the property translucent to YES will not work in iOS 5 and below. Here's how it can be done without subclassing toolbar:

const float colorMask[6] = {222, 255, 222, 255, 222, 255};
UIImage *img = [[UIImage alloc] init];
UIImage *maskedImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage: CGImageCreateWithMaskingColors(img.CGImage, colorMask)];

[self.toolbar setBackgroundImage:maskedImage forToolbarPosition:UIToolbarPositionAny barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];