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Changing tab bar font in Swift

I have been trying to change the font for the tab bar items however I haven't been able to find any Swift examples. I know that this is how you change it in Objective-C:

[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIFont fontWithName:@"AmericanTypewriter" size:20.0f], UITextAttributeFont, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

But how can I translate this into Swift?

Solution

  • The UITextAttributeFont was deprecated in iOS 7. You should use the NS variant instead:

    import UIKit

let appearance = UITabBarItem.appearance()
let attributes = [NSFontAttributeName:UIFont(name: "American Typewriter", size: 20)]
appearance.setTitleTextAttributes(attributes, forState: .Normal)