In iOS 7, how do I change the color of the options in my UIActionSheet?

Question

I use green as the "action color" throughout my app, and I want the options in my UIActionSheets to be green as well, for consistency. How can I change the colour of the UIActionSheet options to green from blue?

score 28 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 06 '13 at 20:56

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Utilize the willPresentActionSheet delegate method of UIActionSheet to change the action sheet button color.

- (void)willPresentActionSheet:(UIActionSheet *)actionSheet
{
    for (UIView *subview in actionSheet.subviews) {
        if ([subview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
            UIButton *button = (UIButton *)subview;
            button.titleLabel.textColor = [UIColor greenColor];
        }
    }
}

answered Oct 06 '13 at 20:56

Stephen Melvin

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This answer is better. Uses a delegate method not to mention more concise. Also the above answer doesn't change the cancel button's color. – LazerLex Oct 10 '13 at 10:08
For some reason, if you also want to change the font, you have to do that before changing the color, or it won't work – Breno Gazzola Oct 29 '13 at 23:26
@BrenoGazzola: What happens? – Stephen Melvin Oct 30 '13 at 15:05
When doing `button.titleLabel.textColor = MY_COLOR;button.titleLabel.font = MY_FONT;` the options were changed to the new font but remained blue and red. Simply changing the order to `button.titleLabel.font = MY_FONT;button.titleLabel.textColor = MY_COLOR;` fixed the problem and I got both the new font and new colors. – Breno Gazzola Oct 31 '13 at 21:06
That is strange. Which version of iOS are you running and what device/simulator are you using to run the code? If I can replicate this tonight, I'll submit a bug ticket to apple. – Stephen Melvin Nov 01 '13 at 14:22
don't forget to set the button's color for selected states as well! http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7806840/how-to-set-the-buttons-label-text-color-for-state-uicontrolstatehighlighted Regular buttons will use UIControlStateHighlighted when tapped, but the Cancel button will use UIControlStateSelected – Rembrandt Q. Einstein Apr 21 '14 at 21:16

Matt Tang · Answer 2 · 2013-10-07T18:50:13.280

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You could do something like this:

// Your code to instantiate the UIActionSheet
UIActionSheet *actionSheet = [[UIActionSheet alloc] init];
// Configure actionSheet

// Iterate through the sub views of the action sheet
for (id actionSheetSubview in actionSheet.subviews) {
    // Change the font color if the sub view is a UIButton
    if ([actionSheetSubview isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]]) {
        UIButton *button = (UIButton *)actionSheetSubview;
        [button setTitleColor:[UIColor greenColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
        [button setTitleColor:[UIColor greenColor] forState:UIControlStateSelected];
        [button setTitleColor:[UIColor greenColor] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted];

    }
}

If you're going to reuse this a lot, I'd subclass UIActionSheet and use this code.

edited Oct 07 '13 at 18:50

answered Oct 06 '13 at 18:39

Matt Tang

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Is that using private APIs? – Doug Smith Oct 06 '13 at 18:52
No, it is just accessing all the subviews of a UIActionSheet and finding the buttons – Tim Oct 06 '13 at 18:56
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When you tap it it changes back to blue. – Doug Smith Oct 07 '13 at 18:47
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Did you manage to make it work for the cancel button ? Mine keep geting it's previous color – CedricSoubrie Feb 17 '14 at 12:38

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 02 '15 at 13:43

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You can change easily the application's tint color using this short function on your AppDelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method.

[[UIView appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];

Hope it will help you :)

answered Dec 02 '15 at 13:43

tryp

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In iOS 7, how do I change the color of the options in my UIActionSheet?

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