Add a UISegmentedControl as the titleView in a UINavigationController - ios

Question

I'm trying to add a UISegmentedControl programmatically as the titleView in a UINavigationController. But it did not show up. Upon further investigation, I found out that the titleView property is ignored if the leftBarButtonItem is not set to nil according to the Apple docs. So I set it to nil but still the segmented control does not show up!
Below is my code.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil;
UISegmentedControl *statFilter = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Personnal", #"Department", #"Company", nil]];
[statFilter setSegmentedControlStyle:UISegmentedControlStyleBar];
self.navigationItem.titleView = statFilter;
}
What should I do? What am I missing here?
Thanks.
EDIT :
Thanks for all the responses. However, none of them worked for me so I took a deeper look. It must be the way I have laid out my application. I probably should have mentioned that earlier. Apologies.
What I'm creating is a Storyboard app. The main controller is a UITabBarController. When a certain tab is clicked, I want to show a UITableViewController. Since you cannot display a Navigation bar in a UITableViewController, I found out that I must add a UINavigationController and implement a UITableViewController inside it. This is how my app basically look like,
That Dashboard View Controller is connected to a class inheriting from UINavigationController
class. Maybe this is where the issue resides?
Because I just created a small test app, put a UIViewController, embedded in a UINavigationController and wrote the code I have posted in my original question above inside the UIViewController's ViewDidLoad and the segmented control shows up just fine. Now I don't know how to do the same in my main app because there's no other view controllers or anything connected to the navigation controller.
Sorry if I made things even worse. Please comment if anything is unclear.

Answer 1

I guess you have to make the UISegmentedControll a UIBarButtonItem:
UPDATE:
This Code makes the SegmentedControll centered:
- (void)viewDidLoad{
self.title = nil;
UISegmentedControl *statFilter = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Personnal", #"Department", #"Company", nil]];
[statFilter setSegmentedControlStyle:UISegmentedControlStyleBar];
NSMutableArray *buttonArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
UIBarButtonItem *flexibleSpace = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFlexibleSpace target:nil action:nil];
[buttonArray addObject:flexibleSpace];
[buttonArray addObject:[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:statFilter]];
[buttonArray addObject:flexibleSpace];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems = buttonArray;
[buttonArray release];
}
I hope this helps you out!

Answer 2

Use this i hope this will help you
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
UIView * navview = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(10, 10, 160,80)];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil;
UISegmentedControl *statFilter = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:#"Personnal", #"Department", #"Company", nil]];
[navview addSubview:statFilter];
self.navigationItem.titleView = navview;
}