iOS 5: UITabBarItem setFinishedSelectedImage:withFinishedUnselectedImage: not working / ignored

Question

As per Apple docs

I\'m trying to set custom finished selected and unselected images on a UITabBarItem like so:

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Answer 1

The tab bar item is initialized with the method: initWithTabBarSystemItem:tag:. But, as the documentation says:

This method returns a system-supplied tab bar item. The title and image properties of the returned item cannot be changed later.

You should initialize the tab bar item with initWithTitle:image:tag:.

UITabBarItem *vc1i = [[UITabBarItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Top Rated" image:nil tag:100];
[vc1i setFinishedSelectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"tab_bar_item_selected.png"] withFinishedUnselectedImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"tab_bar_item_normal.png"]];

Answer 2

If your are trying to achieve displaying of the actual image at the UITabBar then use the following code.

[yourTabBarItem setImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"more.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal]];

and if you want to display image in original condition for the selected then use the following

[yourTabBarItem setSelectedImage:[[UIImage imageNamed:@"more.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal]];

these two are alternative to

setFinishedSelectedImage:  withFinishedUnselectedImage: