Change the color of iOS Navigation Bar

Question or problem with Swift language programming:

I’m trying to change the color of my navigator bar but I found that it’s only impossible if the navigator is the root one.

I’m trying this:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.translucent = true

self.navigationController!.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.blueColor()

All my Viewcontrollers are related to navigator controllers. However nothing is changed. In fact I tried to make the same things from storyboard but it works only if I’m in the first navigator.

I tried to read everything related to this problem but found nothing

I could add any item to the navigator bar like this

let HomeImage = UIImage(named: "home")!
    let Home : UIBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(image: HomeImage,  style: .Plain, target: self, action: "home:")
    navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = Home

How to solve the problem:

Solution 1:

In fact, i found that the solution was to use in the AppDelegate.siwft :

func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {
    // Override point for customization after application launch.
    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 0, green: 0/255, blue: 205/255, alpha: 1)
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName:UIColor.whiteColor()]

    return true
}

and then in each view controller, that we need another background color or something else

1. the segue should be different than “show”

2. use the func viewWillAppear

    override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) { super.viewWillAppear(animated) self.navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.whiteColor() self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.blueColor() self.navigationController!.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.blueColor()] } 

Solution 2:

Updated for Swift 3

    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .black
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
    UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false

Swift 4

    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .black
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
    UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false

Swift 5

    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .black
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
    UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false

Solution 3:

Swift 4.2:

    //To change Navigation Bar Background Color
    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.blue
    //To change Back button title & icon color
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white
    //To change Navigation Bar Title Color
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]

Swift 3.x:

//To change Navigation Bar Background Color
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.blue
//To change Back button title & icon color
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.white
//To change Navigation Bar Title Color
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]

Solution 4:

For changing the navigation bar theme color throughout the full app you can do this by using UiNavigation bar appearance.

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.redColor()

Solution 5:

If your view controller is embedded in navigation controller then you can remove this default navigation bar and can use a custom navigation bar for that view controller.

Then you can do look like

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 46.0/255.0, green: 14.0/255.0, blue: 74.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)

Hope this helps!