Custom UITabBarItem Image/Title on iPhone

Question

I\'d like to add a custom title to one of the predefined UITabBarItems. Whenever I select the particular instance I like in Interface Builder -- if I modify the the title it get

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the only types of UITabBarItems are those supplied and described entirely by the OS (ie, it assigns them icons and titles), and those described entirely by the app, as you've discovered. By far the simplest solution is to pull the icon out of somewhere else and use it with -initWithTitle:image:tag.

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Answer 2

As for finding the icons online... I'm still looking for all the official Apple ones myself. Here's what I've found so far:

• http://glyphish.com/
• http://www.kombine.net/icon-store/iphone-tab-bar-icons

And instead of screenscraping, do this:

• http://www.alexcurylo.com/blog/2009/01/03/extracting-sdk-icons/