iOS: Increasing contrast on Tab items

Question

It is difficult to see my tab item images and text with the dark blue background I am using as you can see in this image. Is there a way to make them more bright when not selected?

Answer 1

I assume you're targeting iOS 5, meaning that you can take advantage of the UIAppearance API. In that case, you need to do more than just set the background image of the tab bar; you need to set selected and unselected "finished" images for each tab bar item. By "finished", we mean that the default "shine" effect won't be applied before displaying your images; they'll be shown exactly as they are.

Here's a great tutorial showing all the customizations you can apply.