iOS 7 : Disable UINavigationBar Translucency For Entire App

Question

Is there a way to disable UINavigationBar Translucency for an entire application?

I'm aware that using [self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO] can fix this issue for a single controller, but I have a lot of UINavigationBars in my application and this is a pretty tedious solution.

I've tried [[UINavigationBar appearance] setTranslucent:NO], but that functionality is surprisingly not supported. Doing that results in Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: '*** Illegal property type, c for appearance setter, _installAppearanceSwizzlesForSetter:'

If I HAVE to, I can go through my entire app setting UINavigationBars to disable translucency one by one, but there must be some more elegant solution to this issue...

Answer 1

if you set the translucence of the first navigation bar in the stack to false [self.navigationController.navigationBar setTranslucent:NO], it will reflect in all the following NavigationViewController that are pushed to that stack.

Answer 2

Here is a Swift solution if you want to apply this Styling to the whole app.

in the AppDelegate class add this to the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

For Swift 2:

UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = false 

For Swift 3+:

UINavigationBar.appearance().isTranslucent = false