change inactive color of the tab item

Question

I was able to change the active color of my tab bar using this answer

My problem is that I don't know how to change the inactive ones like the friends and search tab. I want to change it something like red.

Answer 1

First I have created two images for each icon.

Home Icon, Friends Icon and Search Icon each has white and green color.

Then clicking Assets.xcassets file to add New Image Set

Making it sure that the green icons Render As is set to Original Image since this will be the inactive color icon of our tab bar.Here is a sample screen shots for the sample attribute

By setting the Home Item tab bar Icon. Please Note

System Item => Custom
Selected Image => Home_w//Name of the home white icon
Title => Home
Image=> Home_g//Name of the Inactive tabbar item in my case are sets to green icons

finally overriding Title Color of our tab bar items in AppDelegate.swift.Please note i have used UIColor_Hex_Swift for hex UIColor.

func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    
    let color:UIColor =  UIColor(rgba: "#026a34") //UIColor(hexString:"026a34")
    
    UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color], forState: .Normal)
    
    // then if StateSelected should be different, you should add this code
    UITabBarItem.appearance().setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()], forState: .Selected)
    
    return true
}

Out put(White ones are the selected Image and green ones are the inactive image)