UISegmentedControl in the Navigation Bar with the Back button

Question

I'm adding a UISegmentedControl to the Navigation bar programatically where the titleView should be. But as Apple docs have mentioned under titleView, This property is ignored if leftBarButtonItem is not nil.

But I want to have the back button as well. Like they have illustrated in their own images!

Below is the code I add the UISegmentedControl.

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil;
UISegmentedControl *statFilter = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Filter_Personnal", @"Filter_Department", @"Filter_Company", nil];
[statFilter setSegmentedControlStyle:UISegmentedControlStyleBar];
self.navigationItem.titleView = statFilter;

Is there another way to add a UISegmentedControl along with the Back button as well?

Thank you.

Solution 1

Try this

Remove this line --- > self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = nil;

Add this instead

UISegmentedControl *statFilter = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"Filter_Personnal", @"Filter_Department", @"Filter_Company", nil]];
[statFilter setSegmentedControlStyle:UISegmentedControlStyleBar];
[statFilter sizeToFit];
self.navigationItem.titleView = statFilter;

Only change is I have added this line :

[statFilter sizeToFit];

Hope this Helps !!!

Solution 2

You can create a UIBarButtonItem with a custom view which could potentially be your UISegmentedControl.

Something along the lines of the following may work.

//create segmented control with items
UISegmentedControl *segmentedControl = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"One", @"Two", nil]];

//create bar button item with segmented control as custom view
UIBarButtonItem *barButtonItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:segmentedControl];

//add segmented control bar button item to navigation bar
[[[self navigationController] navigationItem] setRightBarButtonItem:barButtonItem];

I haven't tested this but it should be along the right lines of what you need.

Comments

[Isuru]

Hi thanks for the response. In the meantime I was waiting, I slapped together a small program to test it out. I put 2 View Controllers, a button in the first one to segue to the other one. And in the ViewDidLoad method of the second View Controller, I created the UISegmentedControl using the code I've posted in my question and voila! It works! I don't know why Apple has said it won't work. :S

[Arian Faurtosh]

setegmentedControlStyle is deprecated as of iOS7... can you update your answer please?

[Cymric]

This doesn't seems to work with segment control add via a IBOutlet. A segment control work added programatically work perfectly.