I am trying to change the color of the Settings button to white, but can't get it to change.
I've tried both of these:
navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem?.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
but no change, it still looks like this:
How do I make that button white?
This code changes the arrow color
self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor();
If this does not work, use the code below:
self.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
self.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
Swift 3 Notes
UIColor.whiteColor() and similar have been simplified to UIColor.white
Also, many previously implicit optionals have been changed to explicit, so you might need:
self.navigationController?.navigationBar =
Change complete app theme
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
return true
}
Change specific controller
let navController = UINavigationController.init(rootViewController: yourViewController)
navController.navigationBar.tintColor = .red
present(navController, animated: true, completion: nil)
You can use like this one. Place it inside AppDelegate.swift.
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = false
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(rgba: "#2c8eb5")
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()]
return true
}
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.black // to change the all text color in navigation bar or navigation
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.white // change the navigation background color
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.black] // To change only navigation bar title text color
All the answers setting UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor conflict with Apple's documentation in UIAppearance.h.
Note for iOS7: On iOS7 the
tintColorproperty has moved toUIView, and now has special inherited behavior described inUIView.h. This inherited behavior can conflict with the appearance proxy, and thereforetintColoris now disallowed with the appearance proxy.
In Xcode, you need to command-click on each property you want to use with appearance proxy to inspect the header file and make sure the property is annotated with UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR.
So the correct way to color the navigation bar purple and the title and buttons white throughout the app via the appearance proxy is:
UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .purple
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
UIBarButtonItem.appearance().tintColor = .white
Note that UIBarButtonItem is not a subclass of UIView but rather NSObject. So its tintColor property is not the inherited tintColor from UIView.
Unfortunately, UIBarButtonItem.tintColor is not annotated with UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR – but that seems to me a documentation bug. The response from Apple Engineering in this radar states it is supported.
Lets try this code:
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
let navigationBarAppearace = UINavigationBar.appearance()
navigationBarAppearace.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor() // Back buttons and such
navigationBarAppearace.barTintColor = UIColor.purpleColor() // Bar's background color
navigationBarAppearace.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()] // Title's text color
self.window?.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
return true
}
If you already have the back button in your "Settings" view controller and you want to change the back button color on the "Payment Information" view controller to something else, you can do it inside "Settings" view controller's prepare for segue like this:
override func prepare(for segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: Any?) {
if segue.identifier == "YourPaymentInformationSegue"
{
//Make the back button for "Payment Information" gray:
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.tintColor = UIColor.gray
}
}
Not sure why nobody has mentioned this...but I was doing exactly what you were doing in my viewDidLoad...and it wasn't working. Then I placed my code into viewWillAppear and it all worked.
The above solution is to change a single barbuttonItem. If you want to change the color for every navigationBar in your code then follow this answer.
Basically changing onto the class itself using appearance() is like making a global change on all instances of that view in your app. For more see here
Add following code to didFinishLaunchingWithOptions function in AppDelegate.swift
var navigationBarAppearace = UINavigationBar.appearance()
navigationBarAppearace.tintColor = uicolorFromHex(0xffffff) // White color
navigationBarAppearace.barTintColor = uicolorFromHex(0x034517) // Green shade
// change navigation item title color
navigationBarAppearace.titleTextAttributes =[NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()]
For Swift 2.0, To change the Navigation-bar tint color, title text and back button tint color changed by using the following in AppDelegate.swift
func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
// Override point for customization after application launch.
//Navigation bar tint color change
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 42/255.0, green: 140/255.0, blue: 166/255.0, alpha: 0.5)
//Back button tint color change
UINavigationBar.appearance().barStyle = UIBarStyle.Default
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor(red: 204/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 204/255.0, alpha: 1)
//Navigation Menu font tint color change
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor(red: 204/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 204/255.0, alpha: 1), NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "OpenSans-Bold", size: 25)!]//UIColor(red: 42/255.0, green: 140/255.0, blue: 166/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent
return true
}
You have one choice hide your back button and make it with your self. Then set its color.
I did that:
self.navigationItem.setHidesBackButton(true, animated: true)
let backbtn = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Back", style:UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, target: self, action: "backTapped:")
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backbtn
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem?.tintColor = UIColor.grayColor()
I prefer custom NavigationController rather than setting global ui, or put in ViewController.
Here is my solution
class AppNavigationController : UINavigationController {
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
self.delegate = self
}
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
}
}
extension AppNavigationController : UINavigationControllerDelegate {
func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, willShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
let backButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(
title: " ",
style: UIBarButtonItem.Style.plain,
target: nil,
action: nil)
backButtonItem.tintColor = UIColor.gray
viewController.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = backButtonItem
}
func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, didShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
}
}
Also you don't need to mess with Apple Api like EKEventEditViewController,PickerViewController and so on if you use global settings ui like UIBarButtonItem.appearance().tintColor = .white
