Custom navigation bar

Question

I was crawling Dribble and found the attached design. I was wondering how to do a custom navigation bar like this. I mean how create the navigation bar once and reuse it implici

Answer 1

In older iOS versions you have to subclass UINavigationBar i.e.:

@interface CustomNavigationBar : UINavigationBar
@end

@implementation CustomNavigationBar

- (id)initWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder {
    self = [super initWithCoder:aDecoder];
    if (self) {
        self.opaque = YES;
        self.backgroundColor = [UIColor colorWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"CustomBackground"]];
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {
    // Skip standard bar drawing
}

@end

To use a custom navigation bar in your view controller, you should change a standard class name to CustomNavigationBar in XIB.

Also, you can set the custom navigation bar programmatically:

UIViewController *tempController = [[[UIViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
UINavigationController *navigationController = [[[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:tempController] autorelease];

NSData *archive = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:navigationController];
NSKeyedUnarchiver *unarchiver = [[[NSKeyedUnarchiver alloc] initForReadingWithData:archive] autorelease];
[unarchiver setClass:[CustomNavigationBar class] forClassName:@"UINavigationBar"];
UINavigationController *customNavigationController = [unarchiver decodeObjectForKey:@"root"];

UIViewController *contentController = [[[ContentViewController alloc] init] autorelease];
customNavigationController.viewControllers = [NSArray arrayWithObject:contentController];

Now customNavigationController has the custom navigation bar.