Customizing navigationBar in iOS7 - title color not working

Question

I am trying to customize the navigationBar of a navigation controller in iOS7 and the title color is not changing. I am doing the following:

    [navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:46.0f/256.0f green:46.0f/256.0f blue:46.0f/256.0f alpha:1]];
    [navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO];
    [navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:@{[UIColor whiteColor]:UITextAttributeTextColor}];
    [self presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:nil];

The navigationBar translucency gets turned off and it is dark, but the title also stays dark. I've also tried to create a custom label and set it as the title view with not much luck.

How can the title color be changed?

Solution 1

[navigationController.navigationBar setBarStyle:UIBarStyleBlack];

Solution 2

The appearance api continues to evolve, and UITextAttributeTextColor is now replaced with NSForegroundColorAttributeName.

[navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]}];

I'll add two things:
The key comes first, then the object.

If you want to globally change your nav controller's title attributes, use the appearance api:

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName: [UIColor whiteColor]}];

I'd put that appearance api call in your app delegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method.

UPDATE: Might as well post the Swift equivalents.

To update the navigationBar for an individual view controller, one can use:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()]

To change the navigation bar's appearance throughout an entire app, one can use:

UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()]

Solution 3

Not working for me. Using UINavigation as a modal view controller.

Apparently title colour needs to be set uiapplication level

Edit:

Best way is to change the navigation title in each VC context:

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor whiteColor], NSForegroundColorAttributeName,nil]];

Solution 4

In swift you'll do the following:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [
    NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.redColor(),
    NSFontAttributeName : UIFont.systemFontOfSize(20)
]

Solution 5

Swift + UIAppearance version:

    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .blackColor()
    UINavigationBar.appearance().barStyle = .Black

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Comments

[Mark Semsel]

Yes, UINavigationBar - not UINavigationController. Thanks for the fix, lari.