UIBarButtonItem moves inward after altering it programmatically - ios

I added some UIBarButtonItems to a navigationBar in interface builder. Then I change the buttons (remove,change title or add removed buttons) programatically, and the button indents something like 15 pixels inwards (away from the left/right border of the navigationbar). After the view is reloaded the buttons are back in their original place.
An example is the edit button at the top of a table view: it moves a little bit inward after i change it from edit to done. When I switch it from done back to edit, it stays in the same awkward position.
Can anyone tell me how this comes, and especially what I should do to prevent it?

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I have a view with a large title navigation bar, and a scrollview with a content view inside it. The scrollview is scrolling normally (alwaysBouncesVertical set to true) and the large title collapses and expands as it is supposed to.
I have a button at the bottom of the screen, and when I click it, I change its title. The weird thing is, that when I change it, if the navigation bar is collapsed, it will immediately expand and make the scrollview scroll a bit up, making the button go almost totally out of the screen. From this point on, scrolling works normally again and I can scroll back to the button without any problems.
Do you guys know why setting the title with the regular
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Would trigger the navigation bar expansion?
I tried setting the text to many different strings. I also tried doing other changes to the button layout (such as disabling it) but none of these changes produced the same problem.

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Here is a part of the AirBnB app I would like built.
Here are the 3 questions that I'm in need of advice on.
How do i get a cell on a UITableView to act like the [ MORE FILTERS ] button? The button seems to act like a UITableView cell that always stay at the top. YET, it fades away just before going out of scope. Is this even a tableViewCell?
The view [ARRIVES | DEPARTS]. What view is this on a UITableView? When the tableView is scrolled all the way to the top it connects seamlessly with the [MORE FILTERS] button making it seem like its one view. But when the tableView starts scrolling, the [MORE FILTERS] button can be seen sliding over it as it fades away.
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just like you did, when I came across an application like this one which has cool UI effects and animation, I would like to analyse and if possible try to do the same effect by myself, so that I could get innovations as well as knowledges.
Let's analyse it first, at the meantime you will probably find all the answers. I just drew a graph which shows the UI hierarchy of the screen, of course this hierarchy is based on my analysis, I cannot guarantee that the hierarchy is 100% correct.
I will do a bit of explanations here. From top to bottom:
1. The Navigation Bar(Red), just a opaque navigation bar, nothing special;
2. The Show Filters View(Purple) is a view which anchors to the bottom of the Navigation Bar(Red), and it is hided when the screen launches. Please note that this view is not a subview of Arrives & Departs View(Blue). It is added directly to the view controller's root view. Which means Purple and Blue are siblings;
3. The Arrives & Departs View(Blue), nothing special;
4. The More Filters View(Green), nothing special;
5. The Table View(Orange), nothing special;
So from my analysis, Purple, Blue, Green and Orange are all siblings.
Now let's move on to the fancy UI effects and animations. The trick here is you need to observe the change of the table view's contentOffset (I recommend to do it in the scroll view's delegate - scrollViewDidScroll), and move, hide or show the views accordingly. There are four stages:
1. The initial stage, like the graph above.
2. The Blue starts fading out, Green moves up as the finger moves, Orange increases its height. (Purple is still at the same position and hided, I just removed it from the graph in order to make it clearer);
Blue totally faded out, Green starts fading out and Purple starts fading in. Orange is still doing the same - increasing its height;
Green totally faded out, Purple totally faded in and Orange increases its height to fill the screen and then anchors to the bottom of Purple.
The [MORE FILTERS] button does appear to be a cell of the UITableView. Since it is a different type of cell than the other cells containing the UIImageView and the UILabels using a different identifier you can tell the cell to fade away with an animation. Try this link for more information.
The [ARRIVES | DEPARTS] seems to be its own view. I believe that this and the tableview are both part of a UIScrollView. This is the reason that it seamlessly disappears when the [MORE FILTERS] cell scrolls up towards it.
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It should take up the width of the screen.
It should allow at least 3
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Each button should be tappable, but not
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