Change colour of back bar button item only in swift

Question

I am trying to change the colour of the back bar button item in swift navigation bar.

Ultimately I aim to make something line this for the navbar:

This is my current code which gives me three back arrows as the back button item but how do I change the colour so it is three different colours in one bit of text? (Green, Yellow, Red).

    func setCustomBackImage() {
        navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(title: "<<<", style: .plain, target: nil, action: nil)
    }

Answer 1

There is a much more easier way, since you said " I'm still fairly new to swift ", here you go !

//add this in AppDelegate.swift
func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions 
launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

let backArrowImage = UIImage(named: "icon50")
let renderedImage = backArrowImage?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysOriginal)
UINavigationBar.appearance().backIndicatorImage = renderedImage
UINavigationBar.appearance().backIndicatorTransitionMaskImage = renderedImage
return true
// This will change all back-arrows to whatever image you want
}

Here "icon50" should that "<<<" image. Td:lr , use an image.

Hope it helps :)

Answer 2

This seems to be something like what you're describing:

Pretty simple if you use an image instead of a title for your bar button item.