How to hide white shadow of tabbar from selected item

Question

is there any way to hide shadow color of UITabBar from it's selected items.

for some reason i'm assigning different background images to tabbar on the basis of selected tab index rather than assigning image to individual tab. there is white shadow behind the selected tab. can we disable or remove this shadow?

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Thanks.

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 25 '12 at 19:09

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You don't need to create a transparent image. This is all you need:

[[UITabBar appearance] setSelectionIndicatorImage:[[UIImage alloc] init]];

answered Nov 25 '12 at 19:09

Daniel Nord

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Thanks a bunch Daniel! yes you are right! Basically i was not setting selectionIndicatorImage before that's why shadow was there. [[UITabBar appearance] setSelectionIndicatorImage was the line which i was missing. – W.S Nov 26 '12 at 08:08

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '12 at 13:40

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For iOS 5+

In AppDelegate set something like:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    [[UITabBar appearance] setSelectionIndicatorImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"transparent_image.png"]];

    return YES;
}

where transparent_image.png is a full transparent image =)

Don´t know if this is the best approach since I recently started with iOS, but think this can help you.

answered Nov 19 '12 at 13:40

Limaaf

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I want to say one thing to you. "You are simply awesome" – W.S Nov 20 '12 at 15:19
Do u have any idea about same solution in iOS4 ? – Senthil Mar 14 '13 at 12:27

How to hide white shadow of tabbar from selected item

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