Can you add a UIView above a UINavigationBar?

[markkram]

I have seen it done on some apps, where the navigation bar is actually smaller than the default 44px, and there is a UIView (which has functionality) above the nav bar...

I want more than a custom background image, which I did manage to figure out how to do, but I dont know where to start getting something like this done.

Any help is greatly appreciated
Mark

[JDave]

When you say 'above' do you mean "on-top" or between the statusbar and navbar?

Have a look at apple's docs if you mean "on-top":
View Controller Programming Guide for iOS: Navigation Controllers
if the above link does not go straight to "Customizing the Navigation Bar Appearance", then select that from the left column. Also from this link have a look at "Listing 3-2 Creating custom bar button items"... They have a good sample code for putting in a segmented controller instead of a rightbarbutton. Just omit the line:

defaultTintColor = [segmentedControl.tintColor retain];    // keep track of this for later

in apple's sample code to got a prelim version up and running (you will also need two pics named up.png and down.png if you copy apple's code verbatim), as I don't think apple/iOS gives you access to the ones used in the mail app.

Based on the apple sample code in the link, the key to customizing the navbar button is in this line:

UIBarButtonItem *segmentBarItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:segmentedControl];

where initWithCustomView: is attached to a UISwitch, UIView, UIButton, etc...

Good luck.

[markkram]

Thanks JDave, I did actually mean "between the statusbar and navbar" and I managed to find out how to do it too:

UINavigationBar *navBar = [[UINavigationBar alloc] initWithFrame: CGRectMake(0.0f, 20.0f, 320.0f, 32.0f)];
    
    UIView *tempView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 20)];
    UIImageView *back = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithImage: [UIImage imageNamed:@"logo.png"]];
    [back setFrame: CGRectMake(0, 0, 320, 20)];
    [tempView addSubview: back];
    [[self view] addSubview: tempView];
    
    [[self view] addSubview: navBar];
    
    UINavigationItem *navItem = [[UINavigationItem alloc] initWithTitle: @"Controls"];
    [navBar pushNavigationItem:navItem animated:NO];

Which seemed to do the trick, although I couldnt really figure out how to incoroporate this into the UINavigationController so that it adds back buttons and such, but I think this will do for now

[vamsi.ac]

u can hide the uinavigation bar if u need..

[JDave]

Awesome, thanks for the feedback!