Changing the background color of Tab Bar

Question

I am trying to get desired color rendered in the background of Tab Bar however I am facing problems. These are the things that I tried :-

1. Changing the background color of tab bar object from storyboard. The color rendered is always lighter than the desired color.

2. Programmatically changing the color of the tab bar using the following code inside viewDidLoad() method

       self.tabBar.translucent = false     self.tabBar.backgroundColor = UIColor(hexString: "323B61") 

   It doesn't change the color. Instead , the color rendered is white.

How can I get the desired color for Tab Bar?

Answer 1

To change background colour of UITabBar

TabBarController* Tcontroller =(TabBarController*)self.window.rootViewController; Tcontroller.tabBar.barTintColor=[UIColor yourcolour]; 

Swift 3

Based on the code above, you can get it by doing this

let Tcontroller = self.window.rootViewController as? UITabBarController Tcontroller?.tabBar.barTintColor = UIColor.black // your color 

or in more general

UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black // your color 

Answer 2

We can also do it from Storyboard

1) Select the Tab Bar first:

2) Then from the Attribute Inspector choose Bar Tint colour as shown in the below image:

That's it!