UINavigationBar Touch

Question

I would like to fire an event on touch when a user taps the title of the navigation bar of one of my views.

I'm at a bit of a loss on whether I can access the view of the title of the UINavigationBar in order to wire up a touch event to it.

Is this even possible?

Answer 1

You can add a gesture recognizer to be a single tap to the title of the navigation controller. I found that in the navigationBar subviews, the title is the one at index 1, the left button's index is 0 and the right button's index is 2.

UITapGestureRecognizer *navSingleTap = [[UITapGestureRecognizer alloc] initWithTarget:self action:@selector(navSingleTap)]; navSingleTap.numberOfTapsRequired = 1; [[self.navigationController.navigationBar.subviews objectAtIndex:1] setUserInteractionEnabled:YES]; [[self.navigationController.navigationBar.subviews objectAtIndex:1] addGestureRecognizer:navSingleTap]; 

and then implement the following somewhere in your implementation.

-(void)navSingleTap 

So you can use this for a single tap, or you can implement any gesture recognizer you want on that title.