UITabBar selection indicator image is not taking whole size of tabBar height in ObjectiveC

Question

I am changing setSelectionIndicatorImage and when I run app on iOS 8, I get spacing between image and regular width of tabBar. Is there a way that I can match height of tab bar with setSelectionIndicatorImage? Also I get margin of few pixels on left side of first tab and right side of last tab, and I need to cover that with image too when tab is selected.

Answer 1

This should help you customise the indicator image however you need. You just set class of Tab Bar to this class in the interface builder

class MyCustomTabBar: UITabBar
{
    var didInit = false
    override func layoutSubviews()
    {
        super.layoutSubviews()

        if didInit == false
        {
            didInit = true
            for subview in subviews {
                // can't hookup to subviews, so do layer.sublayers
                subview.layer.addObserver(self, forKeyPath: "sublayers", options: .New, context: nil)
            }
        }
    }

    deinit
    {
        for subview in subviews
        {
            subview.layer.removeObserver(self, forKeyPath: "sublayers")
        }
    }

    override func observeValueForKeyPath(keyPath: String?, ofObject object: AnyObject?, change: [String : AnyObject]?, context: UnsafeMutablePointer<Void>)
    {
        // layer.delegate is usually the parent view
        if let l = object as? CALayer, tbButton = l.delegate as? UIView where tbButton.window != nil
        {
            for v in tbButton.subviews
            {
                if String(v.dynamicType) == "UITabBarSelectionIndicatorView" {
                    // do whatever needed with v, this is your indicator view
                }
            }
        }
    }
}