I am customizing my nag bar button in iOS7 and I am using the following code:
// Customizing the NavBar Buttons
UIImage * btHome = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"Home.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 3, 0, 3)];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackgroundImage:btHome forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
It is working, but the view shows my home button with the button text over it, I do not want the text to show.
What else do I need to do to remove the text?
What I have is shown here:
Try to set
1) text color on a bar button item through appearance
2) use setImage: instead of setBackgroundImage: and do not use resizable image
Try with this code. May be it will help you.
UIImage *faceImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"back_arrow.png"];
UIButton *yourbutton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
yourbutton.bounds = CGRectMake( 10, 0, faceImage.size.width, faceImage.size.height );
[yourbutton addTarget:self action:#selector(handleBack:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[yourbutton setImage:faceImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
UIBarButtonItem *backButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:yourbutton];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backButton;
Sets the back button title offset for given bar metrics
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment:UIOffsetMake(0, -60) forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
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I want to custom iOS back button throughout the application. So I add these lines in my file AppDelegate.m :
UIImage *backButton = [UIImage imageNamed:#"btn_return"];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonBackgroundImage:[backButton resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, backButton.size.width, 0, 0)] forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
Here is the result :
As you can see, there is a white mark on the right.... Does somebody know why ? How can I remove it ?
The previous view controller has a white space as back button title (in his navigation item) because I don't want any label.
Maybe it's because of that ?! Is there an other solution to not see the default "Back" label ?
Thanks a lot for your help
[EDIT]
When I try the answer of Cy-4AH, I get :
Use in this way for
UIImage *image1 = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"btn_return"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
[self.menuBarBtn setImage:image1];
You need use
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackIndicatorImage: backButton];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackIndicatorTransitionMaskImage: backButton];
if yours deployment target IOS 7+
Otherwise ask yours designer to add one pixel empty column in the right.
Use this code:
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonTitlePositionAdjustment:UIOffsetMake(0, -60)
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
UIButton *backButton;
backButton=[[UIButton alloc]initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0,35 ,35)];
backButton.imageEdgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(7, 7, 7, 7);
[backButton setTitleColor:[UIColor blackColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[backButton addTarget:self action:#selector(btnBackAction:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[backButton setImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"your back button image name"] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
UIBarButtonItem *Rightbarbutton=[[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithCustomView:backButton];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem=Rightbarbutton;
Use this code for hide default backbutton
self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton = YES;
Thanks to #DipenPanchasara, I changed my code by :
UIImage *backButtonImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"btn_return"] imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
GFloat leftInset = SYSTEM_VERSION_GREATER_THAN(#"9.0") ? -2.5 : backButtonImage.size.width -12;
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonBackgroundImage:[backButtonImage resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, leftInset, 0, 0)] forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
(values in UIEdgeInsetsMake changed)
Here is the result :
The back button image is slightly flattened but it doesn't matter.
Thank you all for your suggestions ! :-)
Is it possible to change the back button on a UINavigationBar and change the title?
When I try to set the customView property, I get an image right next to the default button.
I use this code
self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:backButtonImage landscapeImagePhone:nil style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:nil action:nil];
I want the title to be "Back" which is easy enough to do in Storyboard. But the problem is that no matter if I use code above or use customView property, the default back button remains.
You can add a UIImage to the UIButton. And, then use it as a custom back button. Here's a quick example:
// Custom image
UIImage *backButtonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"button-background-image.png"];
UIButton *backButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[backButton setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 30)];
[backButton setBackgroundImage:backButtonImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
// Custom title
[backButton setTitle:#"Back" forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[backButton setTitleColor:[UIColor redColor] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[backButton addTarget:self action:#selector(barPayButtonPressed:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[backButton setShowsTouchWhenHighlighted:NO];
UIBarButtonItem *buttonOnBar =[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:backButton];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = buttonOnBar;
Note: You will loose the chevron (system-provided back arrow) which was introduced in iOS7. It goes as a title and chevron together presenting your previous view controller.
Update:
You can also use UIEdgeInsets to resize your image intelligently.
UIEdgeInsets edgeInsets = UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 0, 15, 10);
UIImage *backButtonImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"button-background-image.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:edgeInsets];
You can achieve what you want by setting the navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem of the view controller that's being pushed to the custom bar button item with the look you want. Good Luck!
I have a UIImagePickerController that pulls from the camera roll.
In the navigation bar, there is a default UIBarButtonItem to cancel selecting a photo, but it does not match my Application at all!
How can I change its appearance or even hide it and then put my own button in its place in the nav bar?
This is easily done with the Back button like so:
// Change the appearance of back button
UIImage *backButtonImage = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"back_button.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(20, 10, 0, 0)];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonBackgroundImage:backButtonImage forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
There does not seem to be a setCancelButtonBackgroundImage method for UIBarButtonItem.
How about this one:
UIImage * cancelButtonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"cancel_button.png"];
UIButton * cancelButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[cancelButton setFrame:(CGRect){CGPointZero, hamburgerImage.size}];
[cancelButton setImage:cancelButtonImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[cancelButton addTarget:self
action:#selector(cancel:)
forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIBarButtonItem * cancelButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:cancelButton];
[self.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem:cancelButtonItem];
I am trying to create a custom UIBarbuttonItem that uses just a png with transparency so that I only have an icon as button. When I try to set the button image, set the background as white, and set the style to Plain I still get an inner shadow and black border around it.
What gives?
I have tried the below code and it still puts the black border around it.
UIImage *background = [UIImage imageNamed:#"Dismiss_normal.png"];
UIImage *backgroundSelected = [UIImage imageNamed:#"Dismiss_selected.png"];
self.closeButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[self.closeButton addTarget:self action:#selector(closeButtonPressed:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; //adding action
[self.closeButton setBackgroundImage:background forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[self.closeButton setBackgroundImage:backgroundSelected forState:UIControlStateSelected];
self.closeButton.frame = CGRectMake(0 ,0,background.size.width, background.size.height);
self.closeButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:self.closeButton];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = self.closeButtonItem;
What I noticed is if I do a modal segue the button, with the code above still has a black border around it, but if I do a push segue it doesn't? WTF?
You must set the button type to Custom and the icon image to the button background.
example code:
UIImage *background = [UIImage imageNamed:#"icon.png"];
UIImage *backgroundSelected = [UIImage imageNamed:#"icon_selected.png"];
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[button addTarget:self action:#selector(checkButtonTapped:event:) forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside]; //adding action
[button setBackgroundImage:background forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[button setBackgroundImage:backgroundSelected forState:UIControlStateSelected];
button.frame = CGRectMake(0 ,0,35,35);
Then set this button to your BarButtonItem like this:
UIBarButtonItem *barButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:button];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = barButton;
I understood your problem.
When you actually push a UIViewController it will be a part of existing UINavigationController. So the UINavigationBar retains. But when you use ModalViewController its just another UIViewController kind of "added" to your existing UIViewController. So the UINavigationBar won't be there.
But you can add another UINavigationBar from xib and add a UIButton. But don't directly add the UIButton, if you do so it will automatically convert to UIBarButton making it bordered.
So first drag a normal UIButton to your UIView(not navigation bar). Change it to custom and add UIImage to it using Attribute Inspector. Then drag that image to your custom created UINavigationBar. It will work as I tried it just now. You can see the screen shot attached below.
This will update ALL back buttons and navigation bars throughout the app.
I have used the Following code to set Custom Navigation back button
UIImage *imgBack = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"nav_back.png"] resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(-6, 22, -6, 0)];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setBackButtonBackgroundImage:imgBack forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
and the Following code for Setting background image on navigation bar.
UIImage *navBackgroundImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"nav_bar.png"];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:navBackgroundImage forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
Try use [UIBarButtonItem initWithCustomView]
UIImage *menuButtonImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"list.png"];// set your image Name here
UIButton *btnToggle = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[btnToggle setImage:menuButtonImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
btnToggle.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, menuButtonImage.size.width, menuButtonImage.size.height);
UIBarButtonItem *menuBarButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:btnToggle];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = menuBarButton;
I personally like FlatUIKit's approach by just flattening out the entire UI through UIAppearance
Essentially, you'd do something like:
UIImage *backButtonPortraitImage = [UIImage backButtonImageWithColor:color barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault cornerRadius:cornerRadius];
UIImage *highlightedBackButtonPortraitImage = [UIImage backButtonImageWithColor:highlightedColor barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault cornerRadius:cornerRadius];
[appearance setBackButtonBackgroundImage:backButtonPortraitImage forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[appearance setBackButtonBackgroundImage:highlightedBackButtonPortraitImage forState:UIControlStateHighlighted barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
UIImage *buttonImageNormal = [UIImage imageWithColor:color cornerRadius:cornerRadius];
UIImage *buttonImageHightlighted = [UIImage imageWithColor:highlightedColor cornerRadius:cornerRadius];
[appearance setBackgroundImage:buttonImageNormal forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[appearance setBackgroundImage:buttonImageHightlighted forState:UIControlStateHighlighted barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
Try this code..
UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
UIImage *btnImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"bg"];
[button setImage:btnImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
button.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, btnImage.size.width, btnImage.size.height);
[button addTarget:target action:action forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
UIImage *icon = [UIImage imageNamed:#"icon"]
UIImageView *iconView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage:icon];
iconView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, icon.size.width, icon.size.height);
[button addSubview:iconView];
iconView..userInteractionEnabled=NO;
[iconView centerBothDirections];
[iconView release];
UIBarButtonItem *barbtn = [[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:button] autorelease];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem =barbtn
I have setup a Navigation Bar in a storyboard with an UIBarButton for the right.
This is the code I use to update the image for this:
// Setup the right navigation bar item
[self.addGameButton setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:#"addGameButton"] forState:UIControlStateNormal barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[self.addGameButton setTitle:#""];
The image is here, it is 76x58 (at 2x). It is 38x29 (at normal).
When run on the device the image is stretching and I do not know why?
The backgroundImage property is meant to draw a stretchable image for the background of the button. If you want the image inside the button, you could try initializing the UIBarButtonItem with this:
UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:#"images/global/add"];
UIBarButtonItem *barButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:image style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:nil action:nil];
[self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem:barButtonItem];
For you, it looks like you have an image that you want to replace the whole button with. You could also try this code, which will create a custom button as the view for your UIBarButtonItem:
UIImage *addImage = [UIImage imageNamed:#"images/global/add"];
UIButton *addButton = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];
[addButton setFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, addImage.size.width, addImage.size.height)];
[addButton setBackgroundImage:addImage forState:UIControlStateNormal];
UIBarButtonItem *barButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:addButton];
[self.navigationItem setRightBarButtonItem:barButtonItem];
In storyboard you can dragg a UIButton over the UIBarButtonItem and you can customise the UIButton as you like.
Try setting the frame of the button to the size you want.
Stuart, since you have setTitle:#"" the nav bar button will not display the text "add" but instead take up the space that was allocated to the text.. I am also yet to find a proper solution but a workaround for your problem is to set the font size to 0.1f. This will resolve your issue..
you need to set the navigation bar appearance in the "application:didFinishLaunchingWithOptions” method of AppDelegate.m, try adding the following code:
UIImage *buttonback = [[UIImage imageNamed:#"nav_back"]
resizableImageWithCapInsets:UIEdgeInsetsMake(0, 22, 0, 0)];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance]
setBackButtonBackgroundImage:buttonback forState:UIControlStateNormal
barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UIBarButtonItem appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDictionary
dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:[UIColor whiteColor],
UITextAttributeTextColor, [UIFont fontWithName:#"verdana" size:0.1f],
UITextAttributeFont, nil] forState:UIControlStateNormal];
Also Note that this will work with iOS 6, looking for a solution for compatibility in iOS 5