Changing navigation title programmatically

Question

I have a navigation bar with a title. When I double click the text to rename it, it actually says it\'s a navigation item, so it might be that.

I\'m trying to change

Answer 1

If you wanted to change the title from a child view controller of a Page View Controller that's embedded in a navigation controller, it would look like this:

override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    self.parent?.title = "some title"
}

Answer 2

The correct answer for people using swift4 would be

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.navigationItem.title = "Your Text"
}

Answer 3

In Swift 4:

Swift 4

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    self.title = "Your title"
}

I hope it helps, regards!

Answer 4

Normally, the best-practice is to set the title on the UIViewController. By doing this, the UINavigationItem is also set. Generally, this is better than programmatically allocating and initializing a UINavigationBar that's not linked to anything.

You miss out on some of the benefits and functionality that the UINavigationBar was designed for. Here is a link to the documentation that may help you. It discusses the different properties you can set on the actual bar and on a UINavigationItem.

Just keep in mind:

1. You lose back button functionality (unless you wire it yourself)
2. The built-in "drag from the left-hand side to swipe back" gesture is forfeited

UINavigationController's are your friends.

Answer 5

and also if you will try to create Navigation Bar manually this code will help you

func setNavBarToTheView() {
    let navBar: UINavigationBar = UINavigationBar(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.view.frame.size.width, height: 64.0))
    self.view.addSubview(navBar);
    let navItem = UINavigationItem(title: "Camera");
    let doneItem = UIBarButtonItem(barButtonSystemItem: UIBarButtonSystemItem.cancel, target: self, action: #selector(CameraViewController.onClickBack));
    navItem.leftBarButtonItem = doneItem;
    navBar.setItems([navItem], animated: true);
}

Answer 6

I found this to work:

navigationItem.title = "Title"