Changing navigation bar color in Swift

Navigation Bar:

navigationController?.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.green

Replace greenColor with whatever UIColor you want, you can use an RGB too if you prefer.

Navigation Bar Text:

navigationController?.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [.foregroundColor: UIColor.orange]

Replace orangeColor with whatever color you like.

Tab Bar:

tabBarController?.tabBar.barTintColor = UIColor.brown

Tab Bar Text:

tabBarController?.tabBar.tintColor = UIColor.yellow

On the last two, replace brownColor and yellowColor with the color of your choice.

Here are some very basic appearance customization that you can apply app wide:

UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = UIColor.greenColor()
UIBarButtonItem.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.magentaColor()
//Since iOS 7.0 UITextAttributeTextColor was replaced by NSForegroundColorAttributeName
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [UITextAttributeTextColor: UIColor.blueColor()]
UITabBar.appearance().backgroundColor = UIColor.yellowColor();

Swift 5.4.2:

UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = .green // backgorund color with gradient
// or
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .green  // solid color
    
UIBarButtonItem.appearance().tintColor = .magenta
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor : UIColor.blue]
UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = .yellow

More about UIAppearance API in Swift you can read here.

Updated for Swift 3, 4, 4.2, 5+

// setup navBar.....
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .black
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false

Swift 4

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .black
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedStringKey.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false

Swift 4.2, 5+

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = .black
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = .white
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.white]
UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false

if you want to work with large title, add this line:

UINavigationBar.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true

Also can check here : https://github.com/hasnine/iOSUtilitiesSource

UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 46.0/255.0, green: 14.0/255.0, blue: 74.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName : UIColor.whiteColor()]

Just paste this line in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions in your code.

Within AppDelegate, this has globally changed the format of the NavBar and removes the bottom line/border (which is a problem area for most people) to give you what I think you and others are looking for:

 func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool {

    UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarPosition: UIBarPosition.Any, barMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)
    UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()
    UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = Style.SELECTED_COLOR
    UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = false
    UINavigationBar.appearance().clipsToBounds = false
    UINavigationBar.appearance().backgroundColor = Style.SELECTED_COLOR
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSFontAttributeName : (UIFont(name: "FONT NAME", size: 18))!, NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()] }

Then you can setup a Constants.swift file, and contained is a Style struct with colors and fonts etc. You can then add a tableView/pickerView to any ViewController and use "availableThemes" array to allow user to change themeColor.

The beautiful thing about this is you can use one reference throughout your whole app for each colour and it'll update based on the user's selected "Theme" and without one it defaults to theme1():

import Foundation
import UIKit

struct Style {


static let availableThemes = ["Theme 1","Theme 2","Theme 3"]

static func loadTheme(){
    let defaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults()
    if let name = defaults.stringForKey("Theme"){
        // Select the Theme
        if name == availableThemes[0]   { theme1()  }
        if name == availableThemes[1]   { theme2()  }
        if name == availableThemes[2]   { theme3()  }
    }else{
        defaults.setObject(availableThemes[0], forKey: "Theme")
        theme1()
    }
}

 // Colors specific to theme - can include multiple colours here for each one
static func theme1(){
   static var SELECTED_COLOR = UIColor(red:70/255, green: 38/255, blue: 92/255, alpha: 1) }

static func theme2(){
    static var SELECTED_COLOR = UIColor(red:255/255, green: 255/255, blue: 255/255, alpha: 1) }

static func theme3(){
    static var SELECTED_COLOR = UIColor(red:90/255, green: 50/255, blue: 120/255, alpha: 1) } ...