title: Completely transparent UITabBar in iOS 8
body: <p>I'm trying to make my tabBar transparent, I've searched but all I found was articles resulting in partly and not fully transparent tabBars and some were for IOS 5, etc.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to accomplish this as seen in Sketch 3:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/15R2E.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>What's the easiest way to accomplish this?</p>
  
  <p>I thought of doing this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    // Make the tabBar transparent
  self.tabBarController.tabBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
  self.tabBarController.tabBar.translucent = YES;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but that result wasn't exactly perfect:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/XDgjV.png" alt="enter image description here"></p>
  
  <p>Really appreciate help!:)</p>
  
  <p>Sincerely,
  Erik</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>// Make the tabBar transparent
  [[UITabBar appearance] setBarTintColor:[UIColor clearColor]];
  self.tabBarController.tabBar.translucent = YES;
  </code></pre>