Is it possible to customize UITabBarItem Badge?

Question

The question below is similar as mine.

How to use a custom UIImage as an UITabBarItem Badge?

Is it possible to use a background image instead of drawing it myself? I think it's fine since my app will only use a 1-digit badgeValue.

If it is not really possible, I want to know if we can change the badge color instead. The answers in the question below are not really helping.

Is it possible to change UITabBarItem badge color

Answer 1

You can use a more robust solution @UITabbarItem-CustomBadge.

Demo

Simple two line of code can get you going

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {

  //supplying the animation parameter
  [UITabBarItem setDefaultAnimationProvider:[[DefaultTabbarBadgeAnimation alloc] init]];
  [UITabBarItem setDefaultConfigurationProvider:[[DefaultSystemLikeBadgeConfiguration alloc] init]];

  //rest of your code goes following...

  return YES;
}