UISegmentedControl tintColor

Question

I'm having problems getting UISegmentedControl to show the desired tint color.

// AppDelegate
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
    // need red tint color in other views of the app
    [[UIView appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];
    return YES;
}

// ViewController
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    [super viewDidLoad];
    NSArray *items = @[@"Item 1", @"Item 2"];
    UISegmentedControl *control = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:items];
    // would like to have this control to have a green tint color
    control.tintColor = [UIColor greenColor];
    [self.view addSubview:control];
}

How to make UISegmentedControl use the green tint color?

Answer 1

I ended up creating a category for the desired behaviour. Subview structure looks like this:

UISegment
   UISegmentLabel
   UIImageView
UISegment
   UISegmentLabel
   UIImageView

So two loops are required for the desired effect (otherwise some parts stay in old tint color).

UISegmentedControl+TintColor.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UISegmentedControl (TintColor)

@end

UISegmentedControl+TintColor.m

#import "UISegmentedControl+TintColor.h"

@implementation UISegmentedControl (TintColor)

- (void)setTintColor:(UIColor *)tintColor {
    [super setTintColor:tintColor];
    for (UIView *subview in self.subviews) {
        subview.tintColor = tintColor;
        for (UIView *subsubview in subview.subviews) {
            subsubview.tintColor = tintColor;
        }
    }
}

@end

Answer 2

Try something like this ?

for (UIView *subView in mySegmentedControl.subviews)
{
   [subView setTintColor: [UIColor greenColor]];
}

But it actually appears that it is a known issue in iOS 7, I don't know if it has been fixed in iOS 8.

"You cannot customize the segmented control’s style on iOS 7. Segmented controls only have one style"

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