change tabbar text color,iPhone

Question

I have created a tabbar programmatically.

Can we change color of title of the tabbar item? Default is white, and i m trying to make it black.

something like

 tabbaritem.text.textcolor=[UIcolor Blackcolor];

Thanks

Answer 1

In iOS5 you use the appearance proxy to change the title color:

For a specific tabbar item:

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                         [UIFont fontWithName:@"AmericanTypewriter" size:20.0f], UITextAttributeFont,
                                         [UIColor yellowColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,
                                         [UIColor redColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor,
                                         [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0.0f, 1.0f)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset,
                                         nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

Or replace self.tabBarItem with [UITabBarItem appearance] to change all your tabbar items. If you want to change them all , I suggest you place the code on appdelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

Answer 2

Just something else ...

To set your standard appearance in iOS 5:

In your AppDelegate.m do:

[[UITabBar appearance] setTintColor:myColor]; //or whatever you want to change

Saves you a lot of work.

Answer 3

Maybe this updated code helps someone:

[UITabBarItem.appearance setTitleTextAttributes:@{
                                                  NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor lightGrayColor] } forState:UIControlStateNormal];

[UITabBarItem.appearance setTitleTextAttributes:@{
                                                  NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor] }     forState:UIControlStateSelected];