Custom nav bar / toolbar backgrounds in iOS5
iOS5 brings out this brilliant new ‘appearance’ proxy that allows us to set our toolbar/nav bar backgrounds in one place. No more writing dodgy categories that override drawrect, or inserting subviews at a magical z-order!
Put this in your app’s didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:
UIImage *barsBack = .. some 1x44px image ..
[[UIToolbar appearance] setBackgroundImage:barsBack
forToolbarPosition:UIToolbarPositionAny
barMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:barsBack
forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];Pretty simple right?
Now if you’re in the unenviable position of writing an app that just
has to work on ios4 as well, you could wrap the above block in an if
(IsIos5()) { block, and use the same background-hack categories as
you used to in ios4 but wrap the code in an if (IsIos4()) { block,
with these handy macros:
#define IsIos5() ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] intValue] >= 5) #define IsIos4() ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] intValue] <= 4)
Good luck!
Thanks for reading! And if you want to get in touch, I'd love to hear from you: chris.hulbert at gmail.
Chris Hulbert
(Comp Sci, Hons - UTS)
Software Developer (Freelancer / Contractor) in Australia.
I have worked at places such as Google, Cochlear, Assembly Payments, News Corp, Fox Sports, NineMSN, FetchTV, Coles, Woolworths, Trust Bank, and Westpac, among others. If you're looking for help developing an iOS app, drop me a line!
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