iOS 7.1 Breaks UITabbar Images Selected State

Question

Since updating to iOS 7.1, my tab bar images initialize as if they were all active, they are all highlighted on launch. Once I visit each tab, that tab image resets and displays correctly. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Suggestions for work around?

Answer 1

In my case, as I finally figured out, this issue was caused by setup of appearance protocol on UIView in my style controller which is called at startup.

I had been setting an overall tint color for UIView. It did not apply to the icons in iOS7.0 but that must have changed in 7.1.

My style code:

  // Color for buttons and enabled controls
  UIView *viewAppearance = [UIView appearance];
  [viewAppearance setTintColor:overallTintColor];

I added this to fix:

  [[UIView appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UITabBar class], nil] setTintColor:[UIColor darkGrayColor]];

darkGrayColor is not ideal, I just threw it in there for testing. I tried using nil, as I would like it to just go back to the default as it used to. Giving nil as a color did not have any effect. I suppose I will play with some color values until I get a close match.

Answer 2

I rolled back my xcode to version 5.0, which the only old version i have and build the app using it. It works perfectly on iOS7.1 device now.

If you have the xcode version 5.0.2 that would be great also.