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

//In Swift 4

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

Answer 2

Swift 4

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.orange
    navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.white
    navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
}

Answer 3

I like Alex's answer. If you want something quick to try out in a ViewController make sure you use

viewWillAppear()
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    var nav = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
    nav?.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
    nav?.tintColor = UIColor.white
    nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orange]
    //nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.orange] // swift 4.2
}

Answer 4

To change the color universally, this code should sit in the NavigationController's viewDidLoad function:

class NavigationController: UINavigationController, UIViewControllerTransitioningDelegate {

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // Status bar white font
        self.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
        self.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    }
}

To change it per ViewController you would have to reference the NavigationController from the ViewController and write similar lines in that ViewController's viewWillAppear function.

Answer 5

To work in objective-c I have to put the following lines in viewWillAppear in my CustomViewController.

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO];

For Swift2.x this works:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.redColor()

For Swift3.x this works:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.red

Answer 6

In Swift 4.1 and Xcode 9.4.1

self.navigationItem.title = "your name"
let textAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor:UIColor.white]
navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = textAttributes