Not being able to modify even the highlight tint colour of the UITabBar is a mini peeve of mine. To me it doesn't make much sense to force blue when a lot of the other UI elements have a tintColor property which works great.
I didn't have the time to do a custom one for my last project so we stayed with the standard blue in the end.
Edit: nice work though! Nice to see a thorough explanation of your thinking.
I didn't have the time to do a custom one for my last project so we stayed with the standard blue in the end.
Edit: nice work though! Nice to see a thorough explanation of your thinking.