Some UI elements don't acquire UIAppearance traits

Question

I am trying to use UIAppearance to get a uniform color theme in my iOS app. For example I try to set the text color of all UILabel objects as follows:

[[UILabel appearance] setTextColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.7 green:0.07 blue:0.12 alpha:1]];

This works fine for all objects statically defined in my storyboard/XIBs. However, sometimes I need to dynamically create a UILabel in a view. In these cases, the UIAppearance is not used. Instead the default text color (black) is used instead.

Has anyone run into this issue/ found a way around it other than resorting to the old "set every element manually" approach?

Answer 1

Seems that not all the classes support UIAppearance and UILabel is not one of those.

Check this question for more info: UIAppearance not taking effect on UILabels created programatically

Here's a list of classes that support UIAppearance: http://blog.mosheberman.com/list-of-classes-that-support-uiappearance-in-ios-5/