iOS - Changing UIBarButtonItem's height

Question

UIToolbar has a nice option for resizing (self.navigationController.toolbar.frame) I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to change the height of a UIBarButtonItem?

I have a custom toolbar with a height of 117 pixels and so far I haven't found a way of modifying the buttons on the toolbar. Also I need it to be a toolbar because the displayed view gets covered with another animated view (cut scene style) while I setup assets in the first view and the toolbar needs to stay on top during all of it.

Answer 1

I've actually run into this myself and the only thing I could come up with was leveraging initWithCustomView and passing in a UIButton with a defined frame.

UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];

/*
* Insert button styling
*/

button.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, width, height);

UIBarButtonItem *barButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:button];

Otherwise UIBarButtonItem only has a width property that can be set but unfortunately not a height property. Another nifty thing I've done with initWithCustomView is to pass in a toolbar with a button and other things like activity indicators. Hope this helps.