I set a custom indicator image for my UITabBar like this
UIImage *tabBarSelectedImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:@"tabBar_selected"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 0, 0)];
[[UITabBar appearance] setSelectionIndicatorImage:tabBarSelectedImage];
and get a 4px padding around my tabBarSelectedImage. Is it possible to set that padding to 0px? So that my tabBarSelectedImage fills the entire space and no border is visible?
Here is the solution of your problem... I was not actually doing this...I was doing something else but the following code will help you a lot....First I tell you what I did...
I made a catagory of UITabbar and implement the following method in that
- (void)recolorItemsWithColor:(UIColor *)color shadowColor:(UIColor *)shadowColor
shadowOffset:(CGSize)shadowOffset shadowBlur:(CGFloat)shadowBlur
{
CGColorRef cgColor = [color CGColor];
CGColorRef cgShadowColor = [shadowColor CGColor];
for (UITabBarItem *item in [self items]) {
if ([item respondsToSelector:@selector(selectedImage)] &&
[item respondsToSelector:@selector(setSelectedImage:)] &&
[item respondsToSelector:@selector(_updateView)])
{
CGRect contextRect;
contextRect.origin.x = 0.0f;
contextRect.origin.y = 0.0f;
//instead of following line you can give our own desired size of contextRect.
//just change the method parameters and include a parameter of desired size in it.
// and this desired size would be the tabbarbutton size...so you will pass the size of
// you tabbarbutton here...because on the back of image there is a tabbarbutton and if
// set the image of button size it will occupy whole the are of button.
contextRect.size = desired size //[[item selectedImage] size];
// Retrieve source image and begin image context
UIImage *itemImage = [item image];
CGSize itemImageSize = [itemImage size];
CGPoint itemImagePosition;
itemImagePosition.x = ceilf((contextRect.size.width - itemImageSize.width) / 2);
itemImagePosition.y = ceilf((contextRect.size.height - itemImageSize.height) / 2);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(contextRect.size);
CGContextRef c = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
// Setup shadow
CGContextSetShadowWithColor(c, shadowOffset, shadowBlur, cgShadowColor);
// Setup transparency layer and clip to mask
CGContextBeginTransparencyLayer(c, NULL);