how to removed dimmed effect of disabled TabBarItem IOS

Question

My application is a classic TabBar Application. I would like to disable the currently selected TabBarItem to prevent the user from taping on the same item again (this causes a small graphic glitch).

To do that, I disable the currently selected TabBar Item.

 [[[[self.tabBarController tabBar]items]objectAtIndex:currentIndex]setEnabled:FALSE];

My problem is that when I disable the item. It becomes partially dimmed. So the Item is selected and its enabled property is set to FALSE; Under these conditions, the dimmers (due to the setEnable:FALSE) "wins" and the TabBarItem image dimmed down instead of highlighted (because it is the one currently selected).

Is there a way to prevent the dimmed effect when setting the enable property to FALSE ? If not, is there another way to discard the selection of the "currently selected" item of a TabBar than setting its Enable property to FALSE ?

Answer 1

If not, is there another way to discard the selection of the "currently selected" item of a TabBar than setting its Enable property to FALSE ?

I think that's the better way to go, since all you want to do is prevent selection of the currently selected item. The delegate methods (UITabBarControllerDelegate) give you what need:

func tabBarController(tabBarController: UITabBarController, 
  shouldSelectViewController viewController: UIViewController) -> Bool {
    let vc = tabBarController.selectedViewController
    if viewController == vc {
        return false
    }
    return true
}

Answer 2

try this... wright this code in you app delegate.this may help...

 [[UITabBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage alloc] init]];
 [[UITabBar appearance] setShadowImage:[[UIImage alloc] init]];