Customize navigation bar with title view

Question

I am trying to add a custom view in the center of a navigation bar and I am using the following code to test it:

UIView * testView = [[UIView alloc] init]; [testView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]]; testView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 35); [self.navigationController.navigationItem.titleView addSubview:testView]; 

I am setting this up in the viewDidLoad method of my view controller but when i run my program nothing seems to change in my navigation bar.

Could you help me with this?

Answer 1

This works. Give frame at the time of initialisation

UIView *iv = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0,32,32)]; [iv setBackgroundColor:[UIColor whiteColor]]; self.navigationItem.titleView = iv; 

Answer 2

If you want to just customize the title for one view controller you can use

UILabel *lblTitle = [[UILabel alloc] init]; lblTitle.text = @"Diga-nos o motivo"; lblTitle.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor]; lblTitle.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:77.0/255.0 green:77.0/255.0 blue:77.0/255.0 alpha:1.0]; lblTitle.shadowColor = [UIColor whiteColor]; lblTitle.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(0, 1); lblTitle.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-Bold" size:18.0]; [lblTitle sizeToFit];  self.navigationItem.titleView = lblTitle; 

or if you want to customize for all view controllers use

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:     [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:         [UIColor colorWithRed:255.0/255.0 green:255.0/255.0 blue:255.0/255.0 alpha:1.0],          UITextAttributeTextColor,          [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0 green:0.0 blue:0.0 alpha:0.8],          UITextAttributeTextShadowColor,          [NSValue valueWithUIOffset:UIOffsetMake(0, -1)],          UITextAttributeTextShadowOffset,          [UIFont fontWithName:@"Arial-Bold" size:10.0],          UITextAttributeFont,          nil]];