How to put an image as the navigation bar title

Question

I want to put a .png image in the middle of the navigation bar instead of the title written in text. Could you please let me know how to do that?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In case if someone needs both image and text inside the Navigation bar title view in Swift 4.2, please try this function:-

override func viewDidLoad() {

    super.viewDidLoad()

    //Sets the navigation title with text and image
    self.navigationItem.titleView = navTitleWithImageAndText(titleText: "Dean Stanley", imageName: "online")
}

func navTitleWithImageAndText(titleText: String, imageName: String) -> UIView {

    // Creates a new UIView
    let titleView = UIView()

    // Creates a new text label
    let label = UILabel()
    label.text = titleText
    label.sizeToFit()
    label.center = titleView.center
    label.textAlignment = NSTextAlignment.center

    // Creates the image view
    let image = UIImageView()
    image.image = UIImage(named: imageName)

    // Maintains the image's aspect ratio:
    let imageAspect = image.image!.size.width / image.image!.size.height

    // Sets the image frame so that it's immediately before the text:
    let imageX = label.frame.origin.x - label.frame.size.height * imageAspect
    let imageY = label.frame.origin.y

    let imageWidth = label.frame.size.height * imageAspect
    let imageHeight = label.frame.size.height

    image.frame = CGRect(x: imageX, y: imageY, width: imageWidth, height: imageHeight)

    image.contentMode = UIView.ContentMode.scaleAspectFit

    // Adds both the label and image view to the titleView
    titleView.addSubview(label)
    titleView.addSubview(image)

    // Sets the titleView frame to fit within the UINavigation Title
    titleView.sizeToFit()

    return titleView

}