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Completely transparent UITabBar in iOS 8

I'm trying to make my tabBar transparent, I've searched but all I found was articles resulting in partly and not fully transparent tabBars and some were for IOS 5, etc.

I would like to accomplish this as seen in Sketch 3:

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What's the easiest way to accomplish this?

I thought of doing this:

    // Make the tabBar transparent
self.tabBarController.tabBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.tabBarController.tabBar.translucent = YES;

but that result wasn't exactly perfect:

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Really appreciate help!:)

Sincerely, Erik

Update

// Make the tabBar transparent
[[UITabBar appearance] setBarTintColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
self.tabBarController.tabBar.translucent = YES;
Solution

  • Have you tried the barTintColor?

    [[UITabBar appearance] setBarTintColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
[[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage new]];

    That should do the trick.