UITabBar not showing selected item images in ios 7

Question

The icons show fine in ios 6 but not in ios 7. I\'m setting the selected state in the viewController viewDidLoad method. When the user selects a tab bar item the image disap

Answer 1

Swift version of showing selected and unselected images and title with UIAppearance API In your Appdelegate.m copy following code if you have tab base app.following code assume you have 4 tab bar.

let tabBarController: UITabBarController = (self.window!.rootViewController as! UITabBarController)

    let tabBar:UITabBar = tabBarController.tabBar

    let tabBarItem1:UITabBarItem = tabBar.items![0]
    let tabBarItem2:UITabBarItem = tabBar.items![1]
    let tabBarItem3:UITabBarItem = tabBar.items![2]
    let tabBarItem4:UITabBarItem = tabBar.items![3]

    tabBarItem1.title = "Home";
    tabBarItem2.title = "Maps";
    tabBarItem3.title = "My Plan";
    tabBarItem4.title = "Settings";

    tabBarItem1.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "home_selected.png")!
    tabBarItem2.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "maps_selected.png")!
    tabBarItem3.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "myplan_selected.png")!
    tabBarItem4.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "settings_selected.png")!

     tabBarItem1.image =  UIImage(named: "home.png")!
     tabBarItem2.image =  UIImage(named: "maps.png")!
     tabBarItem3.image =  UIImage(named: "myplan.png")!
     tabBarItem4.image =  UIImage(named: "settings.png")!


    let tabBarBackground: UIImage = UIImage(named: "tabbar.png")!
    UITabBar.appearance().backgroundImage = tabBarBackground
    UITabBar.appearance().selectionIndicatorImage = UIImage(named: "tabbar_selected.png")!


    UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([
        NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.whiteColor()
        ]
        , forState: .Normal)
    let titleHighlightedColor: UIColor = UIColor(red: 153 / 255.0, green: 192 / 255.0, blue: 48 / 255.0, alpha: 1.0)
    UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([
        NSForegroundColorAttributeName : titleHighlightedColor
        ]
        , forState: .Highlighted)

Answer 2

You need to use tabBarItem initWithTitle:image:selectedImage

[[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"title" image:image selectedImage:imageSel];

in conjunction with changing the UIImage rendering mode:

imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal

or (to apply parent views template tint mask, this option is default for Tab bar Items unless you opt out with the above rendering mode)

imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate

here is a code sample for one tab bar item :-

UIImage *musicImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"music.png"];
UIImage *musicImageSel = [UIImage imageNamed:@"musicSel.png"];

musicImage = [musicImage imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
musicImageSel = [musicImageSel imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];

self.musicViewController.tabBarItem = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Music" image:musicImage selectedImage:musicImageSel];

Hope this helps