iOS7 - Change UINavigationBar border color

Question

Is it possible to change the grey border-bottom color of the UINavigationBar in iOS7?

I already tried to remove to border, but this is not working:

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Answer 1

Here is a category to change bottom color with height:

[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBottomBorderColor:[UIColor redColor] height:1];

Objective C:

UINavigationBar+Helper.h

#import <UIKit/UIKit.h>

@interface UINavigationBar (Helper)
- (void)setBottomBorderColor:(UIColor *)color height:(CGFloat)height;
@end

UINavigationBar+Helper.m

#import "UINavigationBar+Helper.h"

@implementation UINavigationBar (Helper)

- (void)setBottomBorderColor:(UIColor *)color height:(CGFloat)height {
    CGRect bottomBorderRect = CGRectMake(0, CGRectGetHeight(self.frame), CGRectGetWidth(self.frame), height);
    UIView *bottomBorder = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:bottomBorderRect];
    [bottomBorder setBackgroundColor:color];
    [self addSubview:bottomBorder];
}
@end

Swift:

extension UINavigationBar {

    func setBottomBorderColor(color: UIColor, height: CGFloat) {
        let bottomBorderRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: frame.height, width: frame.width, height: height)
        let bottomBorderView = UIView(frame: bottomBorderRect)
        bottomBorderView.backgroundColor = color
        addSubview(bottomBorderView)
    }
}

Answer 2

budidino solutions works very well. Here it is for Swift:

let navBarLineView = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0,
    CGRectGetHeight((navigationController?.navigationBar.frame)!),
    CGRectGetWidth((self.navigationController?.navigationBar.frame)!),
    1))

navBarLineView.backgroundColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(navBarLineView)

Answer 3

I'm using RubyMotion with the RedPotion gem, which includes a StandardAppearance class. This is what I did!

Put this line at the top of your app_delegate.rb, just before the on_load method:

ApplicationStylesheet.new(nil).application_setup

Then, in your application_stylesheet.rb, put this as the last line in the application_setup method:

StandardAppearance.apply app.window

And then this is my StandardAppearance class:

class StandardAppearance
  def self.apply(window)
    Dispatch.once do

      UINavigationBar.appearance.tap do |o|
        o.setBackgroundImage(UIImage.alloc.init, forBarMetrics: UIBarMetricsDefault)
        o.shadowImage = UIImage.alloc.init
      end

    end
  end
end

Answer 4

I solved this problem with the use of autolayouts. The solution works on different screen sizes and with orientation change.

extension UINavigationBar {

    @IBInspectable var bottomBorderColor: UIColor {
        get {
            return self.bottomBorderColor;
        }
        set {
            let bottomBorderRect = CGRect.zero;
            let bottomBorderView = UIView(frame: bottomBorderRect);
            bottomBorderView.backgroundColor = newValue;
            addSubview(bottomBorderView);

            bottomBorderView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false;

            self.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: bottomBorderView, attribute: .trailing, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .trailing, multiplier: 1, constant: 0));
            self.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: bottomBorderView, attribute: .leading, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .leading, multiplier: 1, constant: 0));
            self.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: bottomBorderView, attribute: .top, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: self, attribute: .bottom, multiplier: 1, constant: 0));
            self.addConstraint(NSLayoutConstraint(item: bottomBorderView, attribute: .height, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: nil, attribute: .notAnAttribute,multiplier: 1, constant: 1));
        }

    }

}

Answer 5

Here is another way:

CALayer *border = [CALayer layer];
border.borderColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"border"]].CGColor;
border.borderWidth = 1;
CALayer *layer = self.navigationController.navigationBar.layer;
border.frame = CGRectMake(0, layer.bounds.size.height, layer.bounds.size.width, 1);
[layer addSublayer:border];

Answer 6

I wrote an extension based on the other answers for easier usage in Swift:

extension UINavigationBar {

    func setBottomBorderColor(color: UIColor) {

        let navigationSeparator = UIView(frame: CGRectMake(0, self.frame.size.height - 0.5, self.frame.size.width, 0.5))
        navigationSeparator.backgroundColor = color
        navigationSeparator.opaque = true
        navigationSeparator.tag = 123
        if let oldView = self.viewWithTag(123) {
            oldView.removeFromSuperview()
        }
        self.addSubview(navigationSeparator)

    }
}

You can use this extension with calling the method in a context like that:

self.navigationController?.navigationBar.setBottomBorderColor(UIColor.whiteColor())

I found that pretty useful as I had to deal with that colored-border-problem.