iphone ios7 segmented UISegmentedControl change only border color

Question

Been looking around and trying to change just the border color (with a different text color) with no luck. Can change the tint, but changes both the text and border.

Answer 1

My solution gives the border of the segmented control another color, and keeps the text as the tint color.

In order to only change the border color of your segmented control, put another segmented control on top of your old one. Then disable user interaction for this new one, and I set the image for the selected segment to nil.

UISegmentedControl *segCtrl = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Segm 1", @"Segm 2", @"Segm 3", @"Segm 4", nil]]; 
// The UISegmentedController which you want to change the border color for

[segCtrl setFrame:CGRectMake(5, 5, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width - 10, 30)];
[segCtrl setSelectedSegmentIndex:0];
[segCtrl setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];


UISegmentedControl *bcg = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@" ", @" ", @" ", @" ", nil]]; 
// The UISegmentedController you put on top of the other one

[bcg setFrame:CGRectMake(5, 5, [UIScreen mainScreen].bounds.size.width - 10, 30)];
[bcg setSelectedSegmentIndex:0];
[bcg setImage:nil forSegmentAtIndex:0]; // Removing highlight color
[bcg setTintColor:[UIColor greenColor]];
[bcg setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];



[[self view] addSubview:segCtrl];
[[self view] addSubview:bcg];

Of course, you have to take care of the framing and coloring to fit your application. Other than that, this code should be good to go.