MFMailComposeViewController bar background color not changing in iOS7

Question

I\'m trying to change the background color of the MFMailComposeViewController in iOS7 but I cannot make it work.

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Answer 1

For iOS8:

NSDictionary *navbarTitleTextAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                            [UIColor whiteColor],UITextAttributeTextColor, 
                                            [UIColor blackColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor, 
                                            [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(-1, 0)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset, nil];

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:navbarTitleTextAttributes];

Or

navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor yellowColor] forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor];

Answer 2

@SoftDesigner's answer:

As of iOS 9:

[UINavigationBar appearance].tintColor = yourFavoriteColor;

does not work on the MFMailComposeViewController.

The rest of the answer works (I used it), but as far as I can tell you're stuck with Apple's colors for the nav bar buttons.

Hope this saves someone else some angst.

Answer 3

I had a problem that prevented me from setting the background colour. Turns out I had some other code elsewhere setting the background image to [UIImage new].

The following code fixed it:

 [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:nil forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
 [[UINavigationBar appearance] setShadowImage:nil];

Answer 4

try this. worked for me.

MFMailComposeViewController* myailViewController = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
// set other attributes of mailcomposer here.
myMailViewController.mailComposeDelegate = self;

[myMailViewController.navigationBar setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];

[self presentViewController:myMmailViewController animated:YES completion:nil];

Answer 5

Try the following code

    - (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBarTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
    [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];

    // Your usual code follows here ......

Answer 6

The trick here is to call 'appearance methods' such as

[UINavigationBar appearance].barTintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[UINavigationBar appearance].tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

BEFORE calling to

[[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];

This way the color scheme will be applied to the mail composer. It may be returned back to defaults in mailComposeController:didFinishWithResult: