Colorize UINavigationBar in iOS

Question

I colorized orange my Navigation bar with:

navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.88 green:0.52 blue:0.27 alpha:1];

Everything works ok, every button is as orange as the bar, but when ic cames to a custom right item menu, it shows it blue. This is a screenshot: http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5605/schermata20091202a14565.png

and this is the code for the right buttons:

UIView *container = [[UIView alloc] init];
UIToolbar *tools = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 80, 45)];

NSMutableArray *buttons = [[NSMutableArray alloc] initWithCapacity:2];

UIBarButtonItem *bi = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd target:self action:@selector(addGadget:)];
bi.style = UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered;
[buttons addObject:bi];
[bi release];

bi = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"less.png"] style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(setEditing:)];
[buttons addObject:bi];
[bi release];

[tools setItems:buttons animated:NO];
[buttons release];

self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:tools];
[tools release];

How to make everything to be orange?

Answer 1

You should set the tintColor of the UIToolbar object to be the same as that of the UINavigationBar.

Note that a UIToolbar is not the same as a UINavigationBar, the background gradient/color is a bit different. Try setting the backgroundColor of the UIToolbar to +[UIColor clearColor]

Also, you probably don't even need the container UIView, since UIToolbar is a subclass of UIView, so you can use it as customView just by itself.