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I've used UITabbar. I've set it's background color to clear color. Even though the black colored background is appearing. I debugged the view and found that the UITabbar has implemented UIVisualEffectSubView and UIVisualEffectBackdropView to black color implicitly. What could be the better way to make it transparent with swift 4. Image of debug is attached below.
Try this:
yourTabBar.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear // clears the background
yourTabBar.backgroundImage = UIImage()
yourTabBar.shadowImage = UIImage() // removes the border
iOS 15 UPDATE
For Coloured background
if #available(iOS 15.0, *) {
let appearance = UITabBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
appearance.backgroundColor = .YourColor
tabBar.standardAppearance = appearance
tabBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
}
For Transparent Appearance
if #available(iOS 15.0, *) {
let appearance = UITabBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithTransparentBackground()
tabBar.standardAppearance = appearance
tabBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
}
You need to use the barTintColor on your tabBar
tabBar.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
tabBar.barTintColor = UIColor.clear
tabBar.backgroundImage = UIImage()
I have transparent navigation bar with a background image for view controller, But when I add a bar button item to navigation bar, it becomes like in the second picture. How do I have bar button items also fully transparent navigation bar.
I used these code below to make the navigation bar transparent;
extension UINavigationController {
public func presentTransparentNavigationBar() {
navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics:UIBarMetrics.Default)
navigationBar.translucent = true
navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
setNavigationBarHidden(false, animated:true)
}
public func hideTransparentNavigationBar() {
setNavigationBarHidden(true, animated:false)
navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundImageForBarMetrics(UIBarMetrics.Default), forBarMetrics:UIBarMetrics.Default)
navigationBar.translucent = UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent
navigationBar.shadowImage = UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage
}
}
This should create a transparent UINavigationBar with items in it. It's currently working fine for me.
let navigationBarAppearace = UINavigationBar.appearance()
navigationBarAppearace.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
navigationBarAppearace.translucent = true
navigationBarAppearace.shadowImage = UIImage()
navigationBarAppearace.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 0.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, alpha: 0.0)
navigationBarAppearace.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.whiteColor()]
navigationBarAppearace.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics: .Default)
Try:
if let navBar = self.navigationController?.navigationBar {
extendedLayoutIncludesOpaqueBars = true
navigationBar.translucent = true
navigationBar.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics: .Default)
navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
}
I have a UISearchController in my tableView. Also note that there is a navigation item in the top.
My issue is that i have a black border in the top and bottom when I load the page, however, it is not present when I click the search bar.
Search bar on page load (with black border):
After clicking on search bar (no black border):
Here is the code related:
let searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
in viewDidLoad:
searchController.searchBar.barTintColor = UIColor.redColor()
searchController.searchBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
I followed several similar questions and made the following changes after the above lines in viewDidLoad():
1) searchController.searchBar.backgroundImage = UIImage()
2) searchController.searchBar.searchBarStyle = UISearchBarStyle.Minimal
3) searchController.searchBar.layer.borderColor = UIColor.clearColor().CGColor
4)
searchBar.layer.borderWidth = 1
searchBar.layer.borderColor = UIColor.whiteColor().CGColor
None worked. Is this an issue with the order I am using the code, or how would I get rid of these lines?
Fixed this after a lot of search. Here's how i did it. In viewDidLoad, added the following lines:
self.searchController.searchBar.translucent = false
self.searchController.searchBar.backgroundImage = UIImage()
self.searchController.searchBar.barTintColor = UIColor.redColor()
self.searchController.searchBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
After that in app.delegate file in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions added the following code:
let backgroundColor = UIColor.redColor()
let foregroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = .LightContent
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(backgroundColor.toImage(), forBarMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = foregroundColor
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: foregroundColor]
Also need this extension on the app.delegate file (place outside of the class)
extension UIColor{
func toImage() -> UIImage {
let rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1)
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(rect.size, true, 0)
self.setFill()
UIRectFill(rect)
let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
return image
}
}
(Thanks to Noel for the extension taken from this answer)
And finally, the desired result:
I think it is the navigation bar you need to remove the border for.
How to hide iOS7 UINavigationBar 1px bottom line
For iOS 13 / Swift 5; the following line makes the trick:
UISearchBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .any, barMetrics: .default)
Cheers!
Here is my tab bar:
The following image shows the program being run and the "NEWS" item selected:
It is clear the bar tint color is working fine as I want !
But the tintColor only affects the image and not the text.
Also, when the an item is selected (as seen above, news) the item color goes blue! How do I prevent this from happening? I want it to stay white.
Why is the text changing to a white color when selected but not when it is unselected?
I basically want the item color and text color to be white all the time.
How do I achieve this? Thanks for any help.
Does it require swift code for each individual item?
EDIT:
From UITabBarItem class docs:
By default, the actual unselected and selected images are
automatically created from the alpha values in the source images. To
prevent system coloring, provide images with
UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal.
The clue is not whether you use UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal, the important thing is when to use it.
To prevent the grey color for unselected items, you will just need to prevent the system colouring for the unselected image. Here is how to do this:
var firstViewController:UIViewController = UIViewController()
// The following statement is what you need
var customTabBarItem:UITabBarItem = UITabBarItem(title: nil, image: UIImage(named: "YOUR_IMAGE_NAME")?.imageWithRenderingMode(UIImageRenderingMode.AlwaysOriginal), selectedImage: UIImage(named: "YOUR_IMAGE_NAME"))
firstViewController.tabBarItem = customTabBarItem
As you can see, I asked iOS to apply the original color (white, yellow, red, whatever) of the image ONLY for the UNSELECTED state, and leave the image as it is for the SELECTED state.
Also, you may need to add a tint color for the tab bar in order to apply a different color for the SELECTED state (instead of the default iOS blue color). As per your screenshot above, you are applying white color for the selected state:
self.tabBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
EDIT:
Swift 3
I did it by creating a custom tabbar controller and added this code inside the viewDidLoad method.
if let count = self.tabBar.items?.count {
for i in 0...(count-1) {
let imageNameForSelectedState = arrayOfImageNameForSelectedState[i]
let imageNameForUnselectedState = arrayOfImageNameForUnselectedState[i]
self.tabBar.items?[i].selectedImage = UIImage(named: imageNameForSelectedState)?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
self.tabBar.items?[i].image = UIImage(named: imageNameForUnselectedState)?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
}
}
let selectedColor = UIColor(red: 246.0/255.0, green: 155.0/255.0, blue: 13.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
let unselectedColor = UIColor(red: 16.0/255.0, green: 224.0/255.0, blue: 223.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: unselectedColor], for: .normal)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: selectedColor], for: .selected)
It worked for me!
Swift
For Image:
custom.tabBarItem = UITabBarItem(title: "Home", image: UIImage(named: "tab_icon_normal"), selectedImage: UIImage(named: "tab_icon_selected"))
For Text:
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.gray], for: .normal)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.red], for: .selected)
Swift 5 and Xcode 13
The solution that worked for me:
Image setup - from the storyboard set Bar Item Image and Selected Image. To remove the tint overlay on the images go to Assets catalog, select the image and change its rendering mode like this:
This will prevent the Tab bar component from setting its default image tint.
Text - here I created a simple UITabBarController subclass and in its viewDidLoad method I customized the default and selected text color like this:
class HomeTabBarController: UITabBarController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
let appearance = UITabBarItem.appearance(whenContainedInInstancesOf: [HomeTabBarController.self])
appearance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: .black], for: .normal)
appearance.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: .red], for: .selected)
}
}
Just set this class as your Tab bar controller custom class in identity inspector in IB.
Voila! That's it.
iOS 13 Update:
+ iOS 15 / Xcode 13 Update:
Add this to your setup for iOS 13 and iOS 15:
Update 23/09/2022 for strange behaviour on iOS 15 when built on Xcode 13 when the tab bar is missing:
if #available(iOS 13, *) {
let appearance = UITabBarAppearance()
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.selected.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: .red]
tabBar.standardAppearance = appearance
// Update for iOS 15, Xcode 13
if #available(iOS 15.0, *) {
tabBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
}
}
Swift 4: In your UITabBarController change it by this code
tabBar.unselectedItemTintColor = .black
Swift 3
This worked for me (referring to set tabBarItems image colors):
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = ThemeColor.Blue
if let items = tabBarController.tabBar.items {
let tabBarImages = getTabBarImages() // tabBarImages: [UIImage]
for i in 0..<items.count {
let tabBarItem = items[i]
let tabBarImage = tabBarImages[i]
tabBarItem.image = tabBarImage.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
tabBarItem.selectedImage = tabBarImage
}
}
I have noticed that if you set image with rendering mode = .alwaysOriginal, the UITabBar.tintColor doesn't have any effect.
I know here are lots of answers but I can't find an easy and valid copy/paste answer for Swift 4.2/ Swift 5.1
tabBarController?.tabBar.tintColor = UIColor.red
tabBarController?.tabBar.unselectedItemTintColor = UIColor.green
Or use UITabBar.appearances() instead of tabBarController?.tabBar like this:
UITabBar.appearances().tintColor = UIColor.red
UITabBar.appearances().unselectedItemTintColor = UIColor.green
Images have to be UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysTemplate
Swift 3
First of all, make sure you have added the BOOLEAN key "View controller-based status bar appearance" to Info.plist, and set the value to "NO".
Appdelegate.swift
Insert code somewhere after "launchOptions:[UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {"
Change the color of the tab bar itself with RGB color value:
UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 0.145, green: 0.592, blue: 0.804, alpha: 1.00)
OR one of the default UI colors:
UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.white)
Change the text color of the tab items:
The selected item
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white], for: .selected)
The inactive items
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.black], for: .normal)
To change the color of the image, I believe the easiest approach is to make to separate images, one for each state.
If you don´t make the icons from scratch, alternating black and white versions are relatively easy to make in Photoshop.
Adobe Photoshop (almost any version will do)
Make sure your icon image has transparent background, and the icon itself is solid black (or close).
Open the image file, save it under a different file name (e.g. exampleFilename-Inverted.png)
In the "Adjustments" submenu on the "Image" menu:
Click "Invert"
You now have a negative of your original icon.
In XCode, set one of the images as "Selected Image" under the Tab Bar Properties in your storyboard, and specify the "inactive" version under "Bar Item" image.
Ta-Da 🍺
Try add it on AppDelegate.swift (inside application method):
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor(red: 0/255.0, green: 0/255.0, blue: 0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
// For WHITE color:
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor(red: 255/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 255/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
Example:
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
// Tab bar icon selected color
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor(red: 0/255.0, green: 0/255.0, blue: 0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
// For WHITE color: UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor(red: 255/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 255/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
return true
}
Example:
My english is so bad! I'm sorry! :-)
In Swift 5 ioS 13.2 things have changed with TabBar styling, below code work 100%, tested out.
Add the below code in your UITabBarController class.
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
let appearance = UITabBarAppearance()
appearance.backgroundColor = .white
setTabBarItemColors(appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance)
setTabBarItemColors(appearance.inlineLayoutAppearance)
setTabBarItemColors(appearance.compactInlineLayoutAppearance)
setTabBarItemBadgeAppearance(appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance)
setTabBarItemBadgeAppearance(appearance.inlineLayoutAppearance)
setTabBarItemBadgeAppearance(appearance.compactInlineLayoutAppearance)
tabBar.standardAppearance = appearance
}
#available(iOS 13.0, *)
private func setTabBarItemColors(_ itemAppearance: UITabBarItemAppearance) {
itemAppearance.normal.iconColor = .lightGray
itemAppearance.normal.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.gray]
itemAppearance.selected.iconColor = .white
itemAppearance.selected.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.orange]
}
#available(iOS 13.0, *)
private func setTabBarItemBadgeAppearance(_ itemAppearance: UITabBarItemAppearance) {
//Adjust the badge position as well as set its color
itemAppearance.normal.badgeBackgroundColor = .orange
itemAppearance.normal.badgeTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
itemAppearance.normal.badgePositionAdjustment = UIOffset(horizontal: 1, vertical: -1)
}
Swift 3.0
I created the tabbar class file and wrote the following code
In viewDidLoad:
self.tabBar.barTintColor = UIColor.white
self.tabBar.isTranslucent = true
let selectedColor = UIColor.red
let unselectedColor = UIColor.cyan
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: unselectedColor,NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Gotham-Book", size: 10)!], for: .normal)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: selectedColor,NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "Gotham-Book", size: 10)!], for: .selected)
if let items = self.tabBar.items {
for item in items {
if let image = item.image {
item.image = image.withRenderingMode( .alwaysOriginal )
item.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "(Imagename)-a")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
}
}
}
After viewDidLoad:
override func tabBar(_ tabBar: UITabBar, didSelect item: UITabBarItem) {
if(item.title! == "title")
{
item.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "(Imagname)-a")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
}
if(item.title! == "title")
{
item.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "(Imagname)-a")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
}
if(item.title! == "title")
{
item.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "(Imagname)-a")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
}
if(item.title! == "title")
{
item.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "(Imagname)-a")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
}
if(item.title! == "title")
{
item.selectedImage = UIImage(named: "(Imagname)-a")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
}
}
in view did load method you have to set the selected image and other image are showing with RenderingMode and in tab bar delegate methods you set the selected image as per title
For Swift 4.0, it's now changed as:
tabBarItem.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.gray], for: .normal)
tabBarItem.setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.blue], for: .selected)
You don't have to subclass the UITabBarItem if your requirement is only to change the text color. Just put the above code inside your view controller's viewDidLoad function.
For global settings change tabBarItem to UITabBarItem.appearance().
In Swift 4.2:
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white], for: .normal)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.red], for: .selected)
you can set tintColor of UIBarItem :
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.magentaColor()], forState:.Normal)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.redColor()], forState:.Selected)
You may also do by this way:
override func viewWillLayoutSubviews() {
if let items = self.tabBar.items {
for item in 0..<items.count {
items[item].image = items[item].image?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
items[item].selectedImage = items[item].selectedImage?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate)
}
Optional:
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.red
I hope it will help you.
Year: 2020 iOS 13.3
Copy below codes to AppDelegate.swift -> func didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
//Set Tab bar text/item fonts and size
let fontAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.font: UIFont(name: "YourFontName", size: 12.0)!]
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes(fontAttributes, for: .normal)
//Set Tab bar text/item color
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.init(named: "YourColorName")
This Code works for Swift 4 if you want to change the image of Tab Bar Item when pressed.
Copy and paste in the first viewDidLoad method that is hit in the project
let arrayOfImageNameForSelectedState:[String] = ["Image1Color", "Image2Color","Image3Color"]
let arrayOfImageNameForUnselectedState: [String] = ["Image1NoColor","Image2NoColor","Image3NoColor"]
print(self.tabBarController?.tabBar.items?.count)
if let count = self.tabBarController?.tabBar.items?.count {
for i in 0...(count-1) {
let imageNameForSelectedState = arrayOfImageNameForSelectedState[i]
print(imageNameForSelectedState)
let imageNameForUnselectedState = arrayOfImageNameForUnselectedState[i]
print(imageNameForUnselectedState)
self.tabBarController?.tabBar.items?[i].selectedImage = UIImage(named: imageNameForSelectedState)?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
self.tabBarController?.tabBar.items?[i].image = UIImage(named: imageNameForUnselectedState)?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
}
}
If you want to support iOS 13 and above please try this code, because the way to set UItabBar is totally changed from iOS 13.
if #available(iOS 13, *) {
let appearance = UITabBarAppearance()
// appearance.backgroundColor = .white
appearance.shadowImage = UIImage()
appearance.shadowColor = .white
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.normal.iconColor = .gray
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.normal.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.gray]
// appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.normal.badgeBackgroundColor = .yellow
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.selected.iconColor = .systemPink
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.selected.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.systemPink]
// set padding between tabbar item title and image
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.selected.titlePositionAdjustment = UIOffset(horizontal: 0, vertical: 4)
appearance.stackedLayoutAppearance.normal.titlePositionAdjustment = UIOffset(horizontal: 0, vertical: 4)
self.tabBar.standardAppearance = appearance
} else {
// set padding between tabbar item title and image
UITabBarItem.appearance().titlePositionAdjustment = UIOffset(horizontal: 0, vertical: 4)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.gray], for: .normal)
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.systemPink], for: .selected)
}
From here.
Each tab bar item has a title, selected image, unselected image, and a badge value.
Use the Image Tint (selectedImageTintColor) field to specify the bar item’s tint color when that tab is selected. By default, that color is blue.
Swift 5:
let homeTab = UITabBarItem(title: "Home", image: UIImage(named: "YOUR_IMAGE_NAME_FROM_ASSETS")?.withRenderingMode(UIImage.RenderingMode.alwaysOriginal), tag: 1)
Swift 5.3
let vc = UIViewController()
vc.tabBarItem.title = "sample"
vc.tabBarItem.image = UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "image.png").withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
vc.tabBarItem.selectedImage = UIImage(imageLiteralResourceName: "image.png").withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
// for text displayed below the tabBar item
UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.black], for: .selected)
Since Xcode 13.0 you have options to set this color on the UI too:
Select the tab bar, then in the Inspector customize both Standard and Scroll to Edge Appearance, and below this items you will find a Stacked and Inline customization options. If you select custom, then you will have the "Title Color" setting. You have to set them all (4).
Simply add a new UITabBarController reference to the project.Next create a reference of UITabBar in this controller:
#IBOutlet weak var appTabBar: UITabBar!
In its viewDidLoad(), simply add below for title text color:
appTabBar.tintColor = UIColor.scandidThemeColor()
For image
tabBarItem = UITabBarItem(title: "FirstTab", image: UIImage(named: "firstImage"), selectedImage: UIImage(named: "firstSelectedImage"))
Subclass your TabbarViewController and in ViewDidLoad put this code:
[UITabBarItem.appearance setTitleTextAttributes:#{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor darkGreyColorBT]} forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[UITabBarItem.appearance setTitleTextAttributes:#{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor nightyDarkColorBT]} forState:UIControlStateSelected];
self.tabBar.items[0].image = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"ic-pack off#3x.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
self.tabBar.items[0].selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"ic-pack#3x.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
self.tabBar.items[1].image = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"ic-sleeptracker off#3x.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
self.tabBar.items[1].selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"ic-sleeptracker#3x.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
self.tabBar.items[2].image = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"ic-profile off#3x.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
self.tabBar.items[2].selectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"ic-profile#3x.png"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
This is the simplest working solution I have
As of Xcode 14/iOS 16, in your UITabBarController subclass, you simply set the tintColor and unselectedItemTintColor properties of tabBar:
tabBar.tintColor = 'some UI color'
tabBar.unselectedItemTintColor = 'some UI color'
I'm creating an app and i've browsed on the internet and i'm wondering how they make this transparent UINavigationBar like this:
I've added following like in my appdelegate:
UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = true
but this just makes it look like following:
How can I make the navigation bar transparent like first image?
You can apply Navigation Bar Image like below for Translucent.
Objective-C:
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new]
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; //UIImageNamed:#"transparent.png"
self.navigationController.navigationBar.shadowImage = [UIImage new];////UIImageNamed:#"transparent.png"
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = YES;
self.navigationController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
Swift 3:
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default) //UIImage.init(named: "transparent.png")
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
self.navigationController?.view.backgroundColor = .clear
Swift Solution
This is the best way that I've found. You can just paste it into your appDelegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:
Swift 3 / 4
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
// Sets background to a blank/empty image
UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
// Sets shadow (line below the bar) to a blank image
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
// Sets the translucent background color
UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = .clear
// Set translucent. (Default value is already true, so this can be removed if desired.)
UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = true
return true
}
Swift 2.0
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
// Sets background to a blank/empty image
UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics: .Default)
// Sets shadow (line below the bar) to a blank image
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
// Sets the translucent background color
UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 0.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, alpha: 0.0)
// Set translucent. (Default value is already true, so this can be removed if desired.)
UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = true
return true
}
source: Make navigation bar transparent regarding below image in iOS 8.1
Swift 5 applying only to the current view controller
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
// Make the navigation bar background clear
navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
}
override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
// Restore the navigation bar to default
navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(nil, for: .default)
navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = nil
}
Swift 3 : extension for Transparent Navigation Bar
extension UINavigationBar {
func transparentNavigationBar() {
self.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
self.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.isTranslucent = true
}
}
Swift 4.2 Solution: For transparent Background:
For General Approach:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: UIBarMetrics.default)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
}
For Specific Object:
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
navBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: UIBarMetrics.default)
navBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
navBar.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
}
Hope it's useful.
I had been working on this, and I was facing a problem using the responses provided here by different users. Problem was a white box behind my NavigationBar transparent image on iOS 13+
My solution is this one
if #available(iOS 13, *) {
navBar?.standardAppearance.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
navBar?.standardAppearance.backgroundEffect = nil
navBar?.standardAppearance.shadowImage = UIImage()
navBar?.standardAppearance.shadowColor = .clear
navBar?.standardAppearance.backgroundImage = UIImage()
}
Update
thanks to #TMin
If you use a tableView/CollectionView with this you will notice a 1 point shadow appears when you scroll. Add navBar?.scrollEdgeAppearance = nil to get ride of this shadow.
Hope this helps anyone with same problem
I was able to accomplish this in swift this way:
let navBarAppearance = UINavigationBar.appearance()
let colorImage = UIImage.imageFromColor(UIColor.morselPink(), frame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 340, 64))
navBarAppearance.setBackgroundImage(colorImage, forBarMetrics: .Default)
where i created the following utility method in a UIColor category:
imageFromColor(color: UIColor, frame: CGRect) -> UIImage {
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(frame.size, false, 0)
color.setFill()
UIRectFill(frame)
let image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
return image
}
What it worked for me:
let bar:UINavigationBar! = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
self.title = "Whatever..."
bar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)
bar.shadowImage = UIImage()
bar.alpha = 0.0
Set the background property of your navigationBar, e.g.
navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 1.0, green: 0.0, blue: 0.0, alpha: 0.5)
(You may have to change that a bit if you don't have a navigation controller, but that should give you an idea of what to do.)
Also make sure that the view below actually extends under the bar.
If you want to be able to do this programmatically in swift 4 while staying on the same view,
if change {
navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = false
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = UIColor(displayP3Red: 255/255, green: 206/255, blue: 24/255, alpha: 1)
navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor(displayP3Red: 255/255, green: 206/255, blue: 24/255, alpha: 1)
} else {
navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(backgroundImage, for: .default)
navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = .clear
navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = .clear
}
One important thing to remember though is to click this button in your storyboard. I had an issue with a jumping display for a long time. Make sureyou set this:
Then when you change the translucency of the navigation bar it will not cause the views to jump as the views extend all the way to the top, regardless of the visiblity of the navigation bar.
Add this in your did load
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 1, green: 1, blue: 1, alpha: 0.0)
//adjust alpha according to your need 0 is transparent 1 is solid
For those looking for OBJC solution, to be added in App Delegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[UINavigationBar appearance].shadowImage = [UIImage new];
[UINavigationBar appearance].backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
[UINavigationBar appearance].translucent = YES;
Try this, it works for me if you also need to support ios7, it is based on the transparency of UItoolBar:
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new]
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.shadowImage = [UIImage new];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = YES;
self.navigationController.view.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
UIToolbar* blurredView = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:self.navigationController.navigationBar.bounds];
[blurredView setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlack];
[blurredView setBarTintColor:[UIColor redColor]];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar insertSubview:blurredView atIndex:0];
iOS 13.0+ introduced UINavigationBarAppearance because of which, this problem occurs on iOS 13.0+
Use this to solve.
Change Navigation Bar Appearance
Use UINavigationBarAppearance and UIBarButtonItemAppearance to change the appearance of the navigation bar.
// Make the navigation bar's title with red text.
if #available(iOS 13, *) {
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
appearance.backgroundColor = UIColor.systemRed
appearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.lightText] // With a red background, make the title more readable.
navigationItem.standardAppearance = appearance
navigationItem.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
navigationItem.compactAppearance = appearance // For iPhone small navigation bar in landscape.
}
Utility method which you call by passing navigationController and color which you like to set on navigation bar. For transparent you can use clearColor of UIColor class.
For objective c -
+ (void)setNavigationBarColor:(UINavigationController *)navigationController
color:(UIColor*) color {
[navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:false animated:false];
[navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[navigationController.navigationBar setShadowImage:[UIImage new]];
[navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:true];
[navigationController.view setBackgroundColor:color];
[navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundColor:color];
}
For Swift 3.0 -
class func setNavigationBarColor(navigationController : UINavigationController?,
color : UIColor) {
navigationController?.setNavigationBarHidden(false, animated: false)
navigationController?.navigationBar .setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)
navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
navigationController?.navigationBar.translucent = true
navigationController?.view.backgroundColor = color
navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = color
}
Write these two lines:
navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
navigationController?.navigationBar.backgroundColor = .clear
Worked for me in iOS 13
None of the answers here fully worked for me. This makes the navigation bar fully transparent - tested on iOS 14 and iOS 11 (Objective C):
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.shadowImage = [UIImage new];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = YES;
self.navigationController.navigationBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
Anyone looking for a iOS 15+ working version, this is what worked for me, as the old techniques with setBackgroundImage/shadowImage were not working anymore.
To se it transparent:
func setTransparent() {
backgroundColor = .clear
isTranslucent = true
standardAppearance.shadowColor = .clear
standardAppearance.backgroundColor = .clear
standardAppearance.backgroundEffect = nil
scrollEdgeAppearance = standardAppearance
}
To remove transparency:
func removeTransparent() {
setBackgroundImage(nil, for: .default)
shadowImage = nil
backgroundColor = .white
isTranslucent = false
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
standardAppearance = appearance
scrollEdgeAppearance = standardAppearance
}
My implementation of navigation bar configuration as translucent and switching to default state for iOS 15 and older versions:
extension UINavigationBar {
static let defaultBackgroundColor = UIColor.red
static let defaultTintColor = UIColor.white
func setTranslucent(tintColor: UIColor, titleColor: UIColor) {
if #available(iOS 15, *) {
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithTransparentBackground()
appearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: titleColor]
standardAppearance = appearance
scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
} else {
titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: titleColor]
setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: UIBarMetrics.default)
shadowImage = UIImage()
}
isTranslucent = true
self.tintColor = tintColor
}
func setDefaultState() {
isTranslucent = false
clipsToBounds = false
if #available(iOS 15, *) {
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
appearance.backgroundColor = UINavigationBar.defaultBackgroundColor
appearance.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UINavigationBar.defaultTintColor]
UINavigationBar.appearance().standardAppearance = appearance
UINavigationBar.appearance().scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
} else {
setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: UIBarPosition.any, barMetrics: UIBarMetrics.defaultPrompt)
shadowImage = UIImage()
barTintColor = UINavigationBar.defaultBackgroundColor
titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UINavigationBar.defaultTintColor]
}
tintColor = UINavigationBar.defaultTintColor
}
}
This will defiantly work for swift 4/5 users.
func setUpNavBar(){
navigationItem.title = "Flick"
navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: UIBarMetrics.default)
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = true
self.navigationController?.view.backgroundColor = UIColor.clear
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
}
IOS15 Version
extension UIViewController {
func clearNavigationBar(clear: Bool) {
if clear {
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithTransparentBackground()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = appearance
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
} else {
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.standardAppearance = appearance
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.scrollEdgeAppearance = appearance
}
}
}
class ViewController: UIViewController {
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(animated)
clearNavigationBar(clear: true)
}
override func viewWillDisappear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
clearNavigationBar(clear: false)
}
}
For above all iOS version
if #available(iOS 15.0, *) {
let appearance = UINavigationBarAppearance()
appearance.configureWithOpaqueBackground()
appearance.backgroundImage = UIColor.clear.imageWithColor(width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 84)
appearance.shadowImage = UIImage()
appearance.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.black ,NSAttributedString.Key.font : UIFont(name: "SF UI Display Semibold", size: 18) ?? UIFont()]
appearance.titlePositionAdjustment = UIOffset(horizontal: 0, vertical: 2)
self.navigationBar.standardAppearance = appearance
} else {
self.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: UIBarMetrics.default)
self.navigationBar.shadowImage = UIImage()
self.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.black ,NSAttributedString.Key.font : UIFont(name: "SF UI Display Semibold", size: 18) ?? UIFont()]
self.navigationBar.setTitleVerticalPositionAdjustment(2, for: UIBarMetrics.default)
}
func imageWithColor(width: CGFloat, height: CGFloat) -> UIImage {
let size = CGSize(width: width, height: height)
return UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: size).image { rendererContext in
self.setFill()
rendererContext.fill(CGRect(origin: .zero, size: size))
}
}
Just add bellow code line inside your application delegate
UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), for: .default)
// Sets shadow (line below the bar) to a blank image
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
// Sets the translucent background color
UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = .clear
// Set translucent. (Default value is already true, so this can be removed if desired.)
UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = true
then override your custom nav bar inside your view controller and make sure to reset once it disappear