Custom tab bar background image - in iOS 4.x
ios, uitabbar, uitabbarcontroller
Solution
A possible solution would be to put an `UIView` with your background image exactly behind the `UITabBar`. Then lower the opacity of your tabbar to 0.5 so you can see the background-image coming through.
UIView *bckgrndView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(tabbar.frame.coords.x, tabbar.frame.coords.y, tabbar.frame.size.width, tabbar.frame.size.height)];
[bckgrndView setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"custom.jpg"]];
[tabbar.superView insertSubView:bckgrndView belowSubview:tabbar];
tabbar.alpha = 0.5;
[bckgrndView release];
Sorry if my code contains some errors. I tried doing this by heart... But you'll catch the drift.
Problem
I have made a tab bar iOS project, when I received the request to change the tab bar's background image to a custom image. The project is developed for iOS 4.x, so the iOS5's `[tabBar setTabBarBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"custom.jpg"]]` does not work. Can you suggest me some simple solutions (if there is any possibility, I would not like to change the entire project)? Edit: Only three lines of code can resolve all: ``` UIImageView *imageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"customImage.png"]]; [self.tabBarController.tabBar insertSubview:imageView atIndex:0]; [imageView release]; ```