Change position of UIBarButtonItem in UINavigationBar

Question

How can I change the position of a UIBarButtonItem in a UINavigationBar? I would like my button to be about 5px higher than its normal position.

Answer 1

I needed to set my button to be more over towards the right. Here's how I did it using UIAppearance in Swift. There's a vertical position property there as well so I imagine you can adjust in any direction.

UIBarButtonItem.appearance().setTitlePositionAdjustment(UIOffset.init(horizontal: 15, vertical: 0), forBarMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)

This seems much less invasive to me than messing with the frame directly or adding custom subviews.