faded, pale background color in UITabBar.background

Question

guys, I am trying to customize UITabBar, but problem is that when I set up simple green background color in UITabBar.background, result is insufficient. Like something lies on background. Here it is look like: faded color

UITabBarController is created in storyboard, but background color I set up in code. Here is appDelegate:

TabBarController* bc=(TabBarController*)self.window.rootViewController;
bc.tabBar.backgroundColor=[UIColor greenColor];

If I set up pictures on background and on items - they just almost invisible. I've tried playing with tint colors on the right bar in storyboard, but all was useless.

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 28 '14 at 18:11

I had a similar issue when programmatically creating the UITabBarController background color in iOS 8. The problem was I was using backgroundColor when I should have been be using barTintColor. Try this.

TabBarController* bc=(TabBarController*)self.window.rootViewController;
bc.tabBar.barTintColor=[UIColor greenColor];

Let me know if that works for you.

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 03 '16 at 03:44

2

You need to set the transparency of the tabBar:

Swift :

self.tabBar.translucent = false

Objective C :

[[self tabBar] setTranslucent:NO]

answered Sep 03 '16 at 03:44

Philippe

1,567
16
18

Your Swift example would also be identical in Obj C :) – theLastNightTrain Sep 20 '16 at 12:21
In Objective-C it's a better practice to use NO instead of false. – Philippe Sep 20 '16 at 19:04
Either way works, I prefer "NO" but "false" is fine and will compile happily. – theLastNightTrain Sep 21 '16 at 20:10
Nice! This is what was doing it for me. – TJ Olsen Oct 15 '20 at 19:08

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 16 '16 at 18:00

1

The same in Swift, iOS 9.

self.tabBarController?.tabBar.barTintColor = UIColor(red: 254/255.0, green: 200/255.0, blue: 93/255.0, alpha: 1.00)

answered Jul 16 '16 at 18:00

DS.

2,846
4
30
35

faded, pale background color in UITabBar.background

3 Answers3