How to disable the blue color highlight in tab bar in iOS?

Question

I am customizing the tab bar in iOS, how to disable the blue color glow at the highlighted tab bar item ?

Will apple reject the app which disables the default blue color glow at the selected item ?

Thanks.

What my post was down voted ? Any reason ? – user403015 Aug 19 '11 at 14:12 — user403015, Aug 19 '11 at 14:12

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 19 '11 at 14:12

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Pre IOS5, you can only do this with a "hack" to over-ride drawrect.

I would recommend against it, even though I have done it and had an app accepted with it (that was over a year ago though).

In IOS5 this will likely be possible with the new customisation api's.

answered Aug 19 '11 at 14:12

ader

Why do you against the customization of tab bar ? – user403015 Aug 19 '11 at 14:57
An Apple engineer recommended I avoided doing this when I asked them about it at a tech-talk. In some Apple videos from ADC they also recommend against it. Over-riding drawRect in my experience is problematic and can cause unexpected results in some circumstances leading to the requirement of non-neat coding / other hacks to compensate. Also see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/716351/quartz-2d-drawrect-method-iphone/717237#717237 – ader Aug 22 '11 at 16:40

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