Completely transparent UITabBar in iOS 8

Question

I\'m trying to make my tabBar transparent, I\'ve searched but all I found was articles resulting in partly and not fully transparent tabBars and some were for IOS 5, etc.

Answer 1

Swift 3.0

... call this code in the AppDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

let tabBar = UITabBar.appearance()
tabBar.barTintColor = UIColor.clear
tabBar.backgroundImage = UIImage()
tabBar.shadowImage = UIImage()

The result will be a transparent background for every UITabBar.

Answer 2

You need to subclass the UITabBarController and in the viewdidload: you should put this code:

CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(rect.size, NO, 1.0);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, [UIColor clearColor].CGColor);
CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
UIImage *transparentImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
[self.tabBar setBackgroundImage:transparentImage];
[self.tabBar setShadowImage:transparentImage];    
//    self.tabBar.alpha = 0.0;

Answer 3

Have you tried the barTintColor?

[[UITabBar appearance] setBarTintColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new]];

That should do the trick.