UITabBar tint color not working on images

Question

I have a UITabBar set up with Interface Buider and the image highlighting works correctly only if I don't set the global app tint color:

When I set the global tint color of my app using

[[UIView appearance] setTintColor:[TAStyleKit tintColor]];

then all the tab images appear as selected.

Only when I click on the tab and go back again, they have the correct color. Note the "Weapons" tab which is here grey:

What am I doing wrong ?

Answer 1

EDIT: Never mind what I wrote before, looks like you just need to change the following...

[[UIView appearance] setTintColor:[TAStyleKit tintColor]];

To...

[[UITabBar appearance] setTintColor:[TAStyleKit tintColor]];

Notice that you were trying to change the appearance of UIView instead of UITabBar. I ran this in a project and it did the trick.

Swift 4.0

UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.red or TAStyleKit.tintColor