[iPhone] Custom Colors in UITabBar

Question

Hello all,
our customers CI consists of mostly reddish colors. The default blue in the tab bar is totally a no-go here, the customer will just reject that. While I am able to put custom views in a navigation bar I haven't found anything like that in the tab bar api. Will I really have to roll my own tab bar just because of this?
Thanks + regards,
Sebastian Mecklenburg

Answer 1

thanks again. now i created a category for UITabBarItem where i re-implement the setImage method with something like
-(void)setImage:(UIImage*)image {
if(image == NULL) //might be called with NULL argument
return;
_image = [image retain];
_unselectedImage = [image retain];
UIImage* img = createSelectedImage(image)
_selectedImage = [img retain];
which seems to work.
and yes, apple's intentions are quite clear and laudable and you gave a reasonable explanation for a nice theory. however, this theory comes to a screeching halt when it hits a brick wall in form of a big company's chief marketing officer who gives a rats bum for user interface design theory and consistency and stuff. for him, a perfect world would be pink with the company's logo printed everywhere. and in my opinion apple should keep in mind that not everything can go their way, that they can hand out guidelines but that they have to provide alternatives.