Change only one specific UITabBarItem tint color

Question

It is well known that the tint color of selected (or active) items in a UITabBarController can be easily changed, here is an example:

myBarController.tabBar.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

In this instance, any tab bar item in tabBar will have a red tint once it is made active. Again, this applies to all of the items in this tab bar.

How can the active tint color be different between other tab bar items in the same bar? For example, one item might have a red tint while selected, while another might have a blue tint.

I am aware that this can probably be solved by redrawing and subclassing the entire tab bar. However, this is the only change I need, and it seems overkill to do so. I'm not trying to change the style or how the items are rendered in any way, just to make that style different between different items.

I haven't seen any answers to this question anywhere that are relevant to the updates in iOS 7 and 8.

Answer 1

There is a much easier way to do this! Add this to the ViewController which UITabBar Item should be in another color

- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
   // change tint color to red
   [self.tabBarController.tabBar setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];
   [super viewWillAppear: animated];
}

Insert this to the other ViewControllers

- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
   // change tint color to black
   [self.tabBarController.tabBar setTintColor:[UIColor blackColor]];
   [super viewWillAppear: animated];
}

I use this to get different Tint colors in each ViewController e.g.: [ red | black | green | pink ]