How to change background color of UiSearchBar to black -SWIFT

Question

I created UISearchBar programmatically as below and the button appears to be of second image.How to clear the white color of search bar and set background colour to Black

var categorySearchBar : UISearchBar = UISearchBar()
        categorySearchBar.frame = CGRectMake(0, 20, self.view.frame.size.width, 30)
        categorySearchBar.layer.borderColor = UIColor.grayColor().CGColor
        categorySearchBar.layer.borderWidth = 1.0
        categorySearchBar.placeholder = "SEARCH"
        categorySearchBar.barTintColor = UIColor.blackColor()
        self.view.addSubview(categorySearchBar)

Solution

You can use barStyle property of UISearchBar , if you are using story board you can use Attribute Inspector to change bar style, or use following code segment. It might help mate :)

categorySearchBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black

Comments

[Nick89]

Is there a way to change it to any other colour, say red? or a custom colour, such as: UIColor(red: 83/255, green: 165/255, blue: 198/255, alpha: 0.4) ? thanks

[dip]

till now no i guess, for that we have to create custom search bar !