Make NavigationBar's titleView larger than itself

Question

I want to place an image in the middle of a navigation bar that is bigger then the bar itself. So far I tried to use a UIView with a UIImageView inside and it works quite we

Answer 1

The UINavigationBar has UIBarMetrics if you want a custom height but it's not fully interactive.

There's a bunch of code suggested by apple to actually develop nice things like iMessage app.