http://www.cnblogs.com/salam/archive/2013/01/30/appearance.html

appearance是apple在iOS5.0上加的一个协议,它让程序员可以很轻松地改变某控件的全局样式(背景)

  @selector(appearance)

  支持 UIAppearance协议的类可以访问appearance selector ,它为receiver返回appearance proxy,我么可以给proxy发一些消息,诸如setTintColor:等
但是它并不是支持所有的UI类。下面列出它支持的类
  1.UIActivitiIndicatorView
  2.UIBarButtonItem
  3.UIBarItem
  4.UINavgationBar
  5.UIPopoverControll
  6.UIProgressView
  7.UISearchBar
  8.UISegmentControll 
  9.UISlider
  10.UISwitch
  11.UITabBar
  12.UITabBarItem
  13.UIToolBar
  14.UIView
  15.UIViewController
例如:
 [[UINavigationBarappearance] setTintColor:[UIColorblackColor]];
 [[UISearchBarappearance] setTintColor:[UIColorblackColor]];
注意:
  初学者肯定会任意调用方法,大部分方法时无效的,如果调用时会抛出unknown selector 异常
  那么如何查看你调用的方法时有效的呢,我们可以在此类的头文件中查看包含“ UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR”常量的方法。
例如UIToolBar
它支持下列方法
@property(nonatomic,retain) UIColor   *tintColor  UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;
- (void)setBackgroundImage:(UIImage *)backgroundImage forToolbarPosition:(UIToolbarPosition)topOrBottom barMetrics:(UIBarMetrics)barMetrics NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(5_0) UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;
- (UIImage *)backgroundImageForToolbarPosition:(UIToolbarPosition)topOrBottom barMetrics:(UIBarMetrics)barMetrics NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(5_0) UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;
- (void)setShadowImage:(UIImage *)shadowImage forToolbarPosition:(UIToolbarPosition)topOrBottom NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(6_0) UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;
- (UIImage *)shadowImageForToolbarPosition:(UIToolbarPosition)topOrBottom NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(6_0) UI_APPEARANCE_SELECTOR;
 
了解更多请访问:http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIAppearance_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html。