UITabBarItem - Background color in iOS 9

Question

I am trying to change background color of my UITabBarItem this way:

UITabBar.appearance().selectionIndicatorImage = UIImage.imageWithColor(UIColor.blackColor())

Here's extension for UIImage:

extension UIImage {
    class func imageWithColor(color: UIColor) -> UIImage {
        let rect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size)
        let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()

        CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, color.CGColor)
        CGContextFillRect(context, rect)

        let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()

        return image
    }
}

It does not work. Here's how it should look finally:

why dont you just use UITabBar.appearance().tintColor property ? — Kristijan Delivuk, Aug 28 '15 at 07:12
I am setting tint to white color, and I need to set background color to black. See updated question. — Nikita Zernov, Aug 28 '15 at 07:14

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '15 at 07:51

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Looks like your image is too small let rect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0). Try to replace with let rect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 50.0, 50.0).

answered Aug 28 '15 at 07:51

Alexey Bondarchuk

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