Programmatically get height of navigation bar

Question

I know that the presence of the more view controller (navigation bar) pushes down the UIView by its height. I also know that this height = 44px. I have also discovered tha

Answer 1

Do something like this ?

    NSLog(@"Navframe Height=%f",
        self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.size.height);

The swift version is located here

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UPDATE

iOS 13

As the statusBarFrame was deprecated in iOS13 you can use this:

extension UIViewController {

    /**
     *  Height of status bar + navigation bar (if navigation bar exist)
     */

    var topbarHeight: CGFloat {
        return (view.window?.windowScene?.statusBarManager?.statusBarFrame.height ?? 0.0) +
            (self.navigationController?.navigationBar.frame.height ?? 0.0)
    }
}

Answer 2

UIImage*image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"logo"];

float targetHeight = self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.size.height;
float logoRatio = image.size.width / image.size.height;
float targetWidth = targetHeight * logoRatio;

UIImageView*logoView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
// X or Y position can not be manipulated because autolayout handles positions.
//[logoView setFrame:CGRectMake((self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.size.width - targetWidth) / 2 , (self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.size.height - targetHeight) / 2 , targetWidth, targetHeight)];
[logoView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, targetWidth, targetHeight)];
self.navigationItem.titleView = logoView;

// How much you pull out the strings and struts, with autolayout, your image will fill the width on navigation bar. So setting only height and content mode is enough/
[logoView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];

/* Autolayout constraints also can not be manipulated since navigation bar has  immutable constraints
self.navigationItem.titleView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false;

NSDictionary*metricsArray = @{@"width":[NSNumber numberWithFloat:targetWidth],@"height":[NSNumber numberWithFloat:targetHeight],@"margin":[NSNumber numberWithFloat:20]};
NSDictionary*viewsArray = @{@"titleView":self.navigationItem.titleView};

[self.navigationItem.titleView addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"|-(>margin=)-H:[titleView(width)]-(>margin=)-|" options:NSLayoutFormatAlignAllCenterX metrics:metricsArray views:viewsArray]];
[self.navigationItem.titleView addConstraints:[NSLayoutConstraint constraintsWithVisualFormat:@"V:[titleView(height)]" options:0 metrics:metricsArray views:viewsArray]];

NSLog(@"%f", self.navigationItem.titleView.width );
*/

So all we actually need is

UIImage*image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"logo"];
UIImageView*logoView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:image];
float targetHeight = self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.size.height;
[logoView setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 0, targetHeight)];
[logoView setContentMode:UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit];

self.navigationItem.titleView = logoView;

Answer 3

Did you try this?

let barHeight = self.navigationController?.navigationBar.frame.height ?? 0

Answer 4

My application has a couple views that required a customized navigation bar in the UI for look & feel, however without navigation controller. And the application is required to support iOS version prior to iOS 11, so the handy safe area layout guide could not be used, and I have to adjust the position and height of navigation bar programmatically.

I attached the Navigation Bar to its superview directly, skipping the safe area layout guide as mentioned above. And the status bar height could be retrieved from UIApplication easily, but the default navigation bar height is really a pain-ass...

It struck me for almost half a night, with a number of searching and testing, until I finally got the hint from another post (not working to me though), that you could actually get the height from UIView.sizeThatFits(), like this:

- (void)viewWillLayoutSubviews {
    self.topBarHeightConstraint.constant = [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarFrame.size.height;
    self.navBarHeightConstraint.constant = [self.navigationBar sizeThatFits:CGSizeZero].height;

    [super viewWillLayoutSubviews];    
}

Finally, a perfect navigation bar looking exactly the same as the built-in one!

Answer 5

Swift version:

let navigationBarHeight: CGFloat = self.navigationController!.navigationBar.frame.height

Answer 6

Handy Swift 4 extension, in case it's helpful to someone else. Works even if the current view controller does not display a navigation bar.

import UIKit

extension UINavigationController {
  static public func navBarHeight() -> CGFloat {
    let nVc = UINavigationController(rootViewController: UIViewController(nibName: nil, bundle: nil))
    let navBarHeight = nVc.navigationBar.frame.size.height
    return navBarHeight
  }
}

Usage:

UINavigationController.navBarHeight()