iOS: Positioning navigation bar buttons within custom navigation bar

Question

I\'m building an app with a custom navigation bar. After some research I decided to do this using a category on UINavigationBar. The navigation bar needs to be a bit larger

Answer 1

My solution, not the best, but it works for me fine. My custom navigation bar has height 55 (default height is 44). I cut from my custom navigation bar only 44 of height and insert it to the navigation bar. Then I cut next part of my custom navigation bar (shadows etc.) and insert it as image view under the navigation bar. And that's it. Buttons are at right places...

Answer 2

You'll need to add the leftBarButtonItem and rightBarButtonItem as custom items and mess with the frames.... for example:

UIButton *button = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,5,buttonImage.size.width,buttonImage.size.height)];
[button setBackgroundImage:buttonImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button addTarget:delegate action:@selector(barButtonPressed:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[button setTitle:titleString forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setTitleColor:CUSTOM_BAR_BUTTON_TITLE_COLOR forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[[button titleLabel] setFont:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:14]];
[[button titleLabel] setShadowColor:CUSTOM_BAR_BUTTON_SHADOW_COLOR];
[[button titleLabel] setShadowOffset:CGSizeMake(0,-1)];

UIBarButtonItem *barButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:button];
[button release];

[[self navigationItem] setRightBarButtonItem:barButton];
[barButton release];

Answer 3

Try adding the buttons to the nav bar in the viewDidLoad method of the view controller instead.