UINavigationBar with custom background and title font for iOS4 and iOS5

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What is the best way to implement a UINavigationBar that has a custom background and a custom title font, for both iOS4 and iOS5?

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:04

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for background, just see here UINavigationBar (CustomBackground)

and for font you can use a text label to set font in iOS4 and in iOS5 you can do it like this

self.navigationController.navigationBar.titleTextAttributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:12.0f] forKey:UITextAttributeFont];

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answered Sep 27 '12 at 15:01

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 27 '11 at 22:48

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In iOS 5.x, you can use UINavigationBar's setTitleTextAttributes for setting the font, color, offset, and shadow color of the title.

In iOS 4.x, it is not a bad idea to set a UILabel as the titleView property of the navigationBar.

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '11 at 23:28

Override drawRect in a custom UINavigationBar class:

- (void)drawRect {
    [super drawRect];

    [self addSubview:customNavigationBackgroundView];
}

Then, in the class that uses this navigation bar, run navigationBar.titleView = desiredTitleLabel. To customize the font of this label, try desiredTitleLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"name" size:22.0].

You can then customize the text color, shadow, etc. of the shadow.

UINavigationBar with custom background and title font for iOS4 and iOS5

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