How to add custom color to navigation bar in iphone?

Question

How do I set the navigation bar to a custom color (e.g. dark green) ?

I know how to change the navigation bar to primary colors like green and red, using code like this:

UINavigationBar *bar = [self.navigationController navigationBar]; 
[bar setTintColor:[UIColor redColor]]; 

Thanks.

Solution 1

Using RGB values like this:

UINavigationBar *bar = [self.navigationController navigationBar];
[bar setTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.5 green:0.5 blue:0.5 alpha:1.0]];

Solution 2

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:107.0/255.0 green:145.0/255.0 blue:35.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]]; 

Place this code in Appdelegate's didfinislaunching method.It will change the color of the navigation bar for the whole app.

Solution 3

And to change the tint of the navigation bar background :

[self.navBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.701 green:0.926 blue:0.000 alpha:1.000]];

Solution 4

For swift, to change the tint of the navigation bar background :

navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.red

Solution 5

[bar setTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:1.0 green:1.0 blue:1.0 alpha:1.0]]

There are many other ways of getting your color from different kinds of components as described in the documentation.

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Comments

[Rani]

Thanks this is working but can i know what will be the RGB value for dark Green color

[Rani]

i have got the color but i now want to make my bar little opaque .How is it possible.Thanks

[Nick T]

Second line of code should read [bar setTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:0.5 green:0.5 blue:0.5 alpha:1.0]];

[PaperThick]

Sorre should't you devide by 255 instead of 256?

[Desert Rose]

@PaperThick Thanks for bringing this into notice.

[sudo]

It isn't working for me. Could it be that loading my view somehow overrides it?

[Desert Rose]

@9000 may be in viewDidLoad or viewWillAppear or viewDidAppear is overwriting this.You can cross check in your view controller.

[sudo]

My mistake, I thought this was about the status bar. Different from a navigation bar.

[Ganpat]

Onwards iOS7 setTintColor not works. Use setBarTintColor instead.