How to have an overlay on top of a selected UITabBar element?

Question

Does anyone know how to have an extra overlay on top of the selected item?

Background runs in the application delegate.

UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"navbar_bgrd.png"]]; if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] > 4.9) { //iOS 5 [self.tabBarController.tabBar insertSubview:imageView atIndex:1]; } else { //iOS 4.whatever and below [self.tabBarController.tabBar insertSubview:imageView atIndex:0]; } 

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Answer 1

Fixed with iOS 5, UIappearance function

  //set the background of tab bar UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"navbar_bgrd.png"]]; if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] > 4.9) { //iOS 5 //[self.tabBarController.tabBar insertSubview:imageView atIndex:1]; [[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"navbar_bgrd.png"]]; [[UITabBar appearance] setSelectionIndicatorImage: [UIImage imageNamed:@"navbaractive.png"]]; [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [UIColor colorWithRed:75.0/255.0 green:75.0/255.0 blue:75.0/255.0 alpha:1.0], UITextAttributeTextColor, [UIColor clearColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor, [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, 1)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal]; [[UITabBarItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes: [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: [UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextColor, [UIColor clearColor], UITextAttributeTextShadowColor, [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, 1)], UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset, nil] forState:UIControlStateSelected];