Customizing the UIPopoverController view background and border color

Question

Is it possible to change the border color, navigation bar style/color, and arrow style/color of a pop over view? If so, how? If some sample code is available, then that'll be great!

Solution 1

Unfortunately, UIPopoverController is not customizable like that. You can't change the border color, navigation bar style/color, or arrow style/color: How to customize / style a UIPopoverController.

Solution 2

iOS 7 onwards, you can change backgroundColor of UIPopoverController which affects the navigation background color as well as arrows of popover.

@property (nonatomic, copy) UIColor *backgroundColor NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(7_0);

Usage example:

    if ([self.popoverVC respondsToSelector:@selector(setBackgroundColor:)]) {   // Check to avoid app crash prior to iOS 7
        self.popoverVC.backgroundColor = [UIColor greenColor];
    }

Note - As of now (iOS 7.0.3), in some cases (like set color using colorWithPatternImage:), the simulator doesn't honor the color but on device it works fine.

Solution 3

Now in iOS 5, popoverBackgroundViewClass is available.

Solution 4

From ios 5 onward you can do much just try this library https://github.com/ddebin/DDPopoverBackgroundView you can customise border tint color, bodrer width as well as arrow

look at the documentation

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Comments

[mjisrawi]

Modifying the unexposed view hierarchy is probably a bad idea, even if your app is accepted. Should the view be modified by Apple in the future, your code would suddenly stop working.

[Jesse Black]

You might want to link to your dup answer at stackoverflow.com/a/7063257/1015071

[Yunus Nedim Mehel]

This is no longer valid, after iOS5 popoverBackgroundView can be subclassed, here is a good one I have just used: github.com/GiK/GIKPopoverBackgroundView

[timgcarlson]

Yep, if you only need to change the background of the popover (including the arrow), this is the quickest way to do it. Much better than subclassing UIPopoverBackgroundView for a simple change.

[Ashok]

Note- above one is old/outdated answer. Now in iOS 7, for navigation bar and arrow color changes, UIPopoverController has introduced backgroundColor as property. See my answer below.

[arlomedia]

Note that if the view you're displaying inside the popover has its own background color, you will only see the popover's background color on the arrow.

[anders]

For simple customizations (IE changing arrow color) this should be the accepted answer!