Changing text color of uitabbaritem

Question

Is there any way to change the text color of a uitabbar item from default gray to white and the selected color to blue?

Answer 1

Old question, but I have a new answer that is supported in iOS 5 onwards (also I'm using LLVM 4.0 literals)

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor] }                                          forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{ NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor blueColor] }                                          forState:UIControlStateSelected];