Centre the tab titles using UITabBarItem appearance

Question

I'm using the following code to highlight the selected tab title.

  [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor whiteColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName,nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];

  [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor redColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, nil] forState:UIControlStateSelected];

The above code works perfectly. Can I modify the above code to increase the font size of the tab title and make it center ?

Answer 1

Try this:

UITabBarController *tabBarController = (UITabBarController *)self.window.rootViewController;
tabBarController.selectedIndex = 1;
UITabBar *tabBar = tabBarController.tabBar;
UITabBarItem *tabBarItem1 = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:0];
UITabBarItem *tabBarItem2 = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:1];
UITabBarItem *tabBarItem3 = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:3];
UITabBarItem *tabBarItem4 = [tabBar.items objectAtIndex:4];
tabBarItem1.title = @"Tab1"; tabBarItem2.title = @"Tab2";
tabBarItem3.title = @"Tab3"; tabBarItem4.title = @"Tab4";
[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [UIColor whiteColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
UIColor *titleHighlightedColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:153/255.0 green:192/255.0 blue:48/255.0 alpha:1.0];
[[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: titleHighlightedColor, NSForegroundColorAttributeName, nil] forState:UIControlStateHighlighted]; return YES;