Hi Every Body and hope you have nice day .. i hope this will help some body here :-) if you want change the color or the lighting color after click the tabbar button or if you want change the background to the tabbar or navbar you only need to add on your "appDelegate" this code and change it to any thing you want : after: -(BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions{ add this : //code for change the color and background UITabBar *taBarAppearance = [UITabBar appearance]; [taBarAppearance setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"tabbarbackground.png"]]; [taBarAppearance setSelectionIndicatorImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"selecttabbarbackground.png"]]; [[UITabBar appearance] setSelectedImageTintColor:[UIColor blueColor]]; [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor orangeColor], UITextAttributeTextColor, [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14.0f], UITextAttributeFont,nil] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted]; UIImage *navBarImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"navbarbackground.png"]; [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:navBarImage forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; UIImage *barButton = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"button.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 5, 0, 5)]; [[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackgroundImage:barButton forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; UIImage *backButton = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"back-button.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0,15,0,6)]; [[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonBackgroundImage:backButton forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; //end of code you can see example here : http://t.co/PK2yhi3r and i miss you all :)) Mohd

That stitched Navbar looks really nice :) Cheers! -- Smug

Hi Smug Yes it is and i like it same as wood nav too :) Thank you

Nice tip @Mohd, Thank you :)

You Are welcome BW :)

Hi Mohd, Great Post! Any clue on the android version? Thank you

Hi Mohd, I love workarounds and therefore, love your posts! A question on this one... I only want to change the back button from the word "back" to an image. Would the code work for this? I think I would only put certain parts of your code into my appDelegate file to get this to work, am I right? If I am, which parts?!

Hi Mohd, Im new on this, i paste your code and change the image names, but i have a lot of errors in appDelegate.h, i have to make more changes? Thanks

there is a bracket missing from the original post. first line: [UITabBar *taBarAppearance = [UITabBar appearance]; [taBarAppearance setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"tabbarbackground.png"]]; [taBarAppearance setSelectionIndicatorImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"selecttabbarbackground.png"]]; [[UITabBar appearance] setSelectedImageTintColor:[UIColor blueColor]]; [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor orangeColor], UITextAttributeTextColor, [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14.0f], UITextAttributeFont,nil] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted]; UIImage *navBarImage = [UIImage imageNamed:@"navbarbackground.png"]; [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:navBarImage forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; UIImage *barButton = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"button.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 5, 0, 5)]; [[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackgroundImage:barButton forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; UIImage *backButton = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"back-button.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0,15,0,6)]; [[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonBackgroundImage:backButton forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

Hi, thanks! I still have some errors like: "Use of undeclared identifier 'taBarAppearance' Thanks again

Hi, thanks! I still have some errors like: "Use of undeclared identifier 'taBarAppearance' Thanks again

Hey, just in case somebody still follows this post: It was a great trick but doesn't work anymore on Xcode5 + IOS7. Looking for a substitute now. Farcat