Custom UITabBar
Technique 1: http://blog.theanalogguy.be/2010/10/06/custom-colored-uitabbar-icons/ Technique 2: @implementation UITabBar ( CustomImage ) - ( void ) drawRect :( CGRect ) rect { UIImage * image = [ UIImage imageNamed : @ "background.png" ]; [ image drawInRect : CGRectMake ( 0 , 0 , self . frame . size . width , self . frame . size . height )]; } @end http://stackoverflow.com/questions/675433/custom-colors-in-uitabbar Technique 3 http://idevrecipes.com/2011/01/04/how-does-the-twitter-iphone-app-implement-a-custom-tab-bar/ Technique 4: (Tried and tested) https://github.com/rumex/RXCustomTabBar