IOS 7 Navigation Bar text and arrow color

This one took me about half a day to figure out but this is what worked for me. Inside the rootViewController that initializes the navigationController, I put this code inside my viewDidAppear method:

//set bar color
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor colorWithRed:85.0/255.0 green:143.0/255.0 blue:220.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]];
//optional, i don't want my bar to be translucent
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO];
//set title and title color
[self.navigationItem setTitle:@"Title"];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIColor whiteColor] forKey:UITextAttributeTextColor]];
//set back button color
[[UIBarButtonItem appearanceWhenContainedIn:[UINavigationBar class], nil] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor whiteColor], UITextAttributeTextColor,nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
//set back button arrow color
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setTintColor:[UIColor whiteColor]];

My full post on this here

Behavior from some of the properties of UINavigationBar has changed from iOS 7. You can see in the image shown below :

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Two beautiful links I'd like to share with you. For more details you can go through these links :

1. iOS 7 UI Transition Guide.
2. How to Update Your App for iOS 7.

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Apple Documentation for barTintColor says :

This color is made translucent by default unless you set the translucent property to NO.

Sample Code :

self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar 
 setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]}];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;