NavigationBar bar, tint, and title text color in i

Question

The background text in the status bar is still black. How do I change the color to white?

// io8, swift, Xcode 6.0.1 
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.blackColor()
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orangeColor()]

}

Answer 1

To do this job in storyboard (Interface Builder Inspector)

With help of IBDesignable, we can add more options to Interface Builder Inspector for UINavigationController and tweak them on storyboard. First, add the following code to your project.

@IBDesignable extension UINavigationController {
    @IBInspectable var barTintColor: UIColor? {
        set {
            navigationBar.barTintColor = newValue
        }
        get {
            guard  let color = navigationBar.barTintColor else { return nil }
            return color
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var tintColor: UIColor? {
        set {
            navigationBar.tintColor = newValue
        }
        get {
            guard  let color = navigationBar.tintColor else { return nil }
            return color
        }
    }

    @IBInspectable var titleColor: UIColor? {
        set {
            guard let color = newValue else { return }
            navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: color]
        }
        get {
            return navigationBar.titleTextAttributes?["NSForegroundColorAttributeName"] as? UIColor
        }
    }
}

Then simply set the attributes for UINavigationController on storyboard.

Answer 2

Swift 4.1

Add a func to viewDidLoad

override func viewDidLoad() {
  super.viewDidLoad()

  setup()
}   

In the setup() function add:

func setup() {

        navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
        navigationController?.navigationBar.barStyle = .blackOpaque
        navigationItem.title = "YOUR_TITLE_HERE"
        navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = .black
        let attributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
        navigationController?.navigationBar.largeTitleTextAttributes = attributes
    }

Answer 3

In Swift 3 this works:

navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.white
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.blue]

Answer 4

If you want to set the tint color and bar color for the entire app, the following code can be added to AppDelegate.swift in

 func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        // Override point for customization after application launch.

    var navigationBarAppearace = UINavigationBar.appearance()

    navigationBarAppearace.tintColor = UIColor(red:1.00, green:1.00, blue:1.00, alpha:1.0)
    navigationBarAppearace.barTintColor = UIColor(red:0.76, green:0.40, blue:0.40, alpha:1.0)
    navigationBarAppearace.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
    return true
`

Navigation barTintColor and tintColor is set

Answer 5

Swift 4.2 version of Albert's answer-

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 234.0/255.0, green: 46.0/255.0, blue: 73.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor : UIColor.white]

Answer 6

In AppDelegate.swift, in application(_:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:) I put the following:

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 234.0/255.0, green: 46.0/255.0, blue: 73.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor : UIColor.white]

For titleTextAttributes, the docs say:

You can specify the font, text color, text shadow color, and text shadow offset for the title in the text attributes dictionary