How to set the tint of a single UIBarButtonItem in a navigation bar

Question

I have a UINavigationBar with a blue tint set by its appearance:

[UINavigationBar appearance].tintColor = [UIColor blueColor];

During the navigation I have one UIBarButtonItem, connected to an outlet, that I want red! So naively, as I wished to keep all the other buttons of my bar blue, I tried that in the viewWillAppear: callback:

self.myOughtToBeRedButton.tintColor = [UIColor redColor];

And guess what? It's still blue!!!

If someone has an idea... I need to tun it on both iOS 7 & iOS 8.

Thanks in advance.

Yes, exactly! It's what the tintColor is supposed to do (at least it's what it does in Interface Builder) — Zaphod, Mar 11 '15 at 17:55
Creating a custom bar button could be a solution to this. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11583603/iphone-set-tint-color-of-back-bar-button-item — Sumit Gera, Mar 11 '15 at 20:01
"And guess what? It's still blue" Because `self.myOughtToBeRedButton` is nil, perhaps? — matt, Aug 16 '15 at 23:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '15 at 23:32

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You can do this by setting the UIBarButtonItem's title text attributes in viewDidLoad:

actionButtonItem.setTitleTextAttributes([NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.redColor()], forState: .Normal)

That single button will be red, and remaining items will use the navigation bar's tintColor. No custom button necessary.

answered Aug 16 '15 at 23:32

BrentM

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Thanks for your answer, but that only changes the text color. I need the tint to be changed, for instance when the button displays a glyph. – Zaphod Aug 17 '15 at 13:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 21 '17 at 14:55

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If you want to keep the original UIBarButton's image. Change the type o render at Images.xcassets. Like this:

answered Sep 21 '17 at 14:55

Allan Scofield

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How to set the tint of a single UIBarButtonItem in a navigation bar

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