I recently needed to add several buttons to a UINavigationItem in my iOS 6 app. All documentation I found only spoke about the standard buttons on a UINavigationItem which are backBarButtonItem, leftBarButtonItem and rightBarButtonItem. Well, not enough for me: I needed 2 buttons to be displayed on the left side of my navigation.<\/p>\n
After hours of searching, reading and trying I found this. Maybe somebody else might need it, too:<\/p>\n
\n\nNSMutableArray *buttons = [[NSMutableArray alloc]initWithCapacity:2];<\/p>\n
UIBarButtonItem *button1 = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:@”button1″ style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(myLittleAction)];
\nUIBarButtonItem *button2 = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:@”button2″ style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(myOtherAcion)];<\/p>\n[buttons addObject:button1];
\n[buttons addObject:button2];
\n[self.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItems:buttons];\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nSo easy and yet it took me so long to set up… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
With this approach you lose the standard back button for navigation. But there’s help. In the method myLittleAction I did this:<\/p>\n
\n\nUIViewController *prevVC = [self.navigationController.viewControllers objectAtIndex:self.navigationController.viewControllers.count-2];
\n [self.navigationController popToViewController:prevVC animated:YES];<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I recently needed to add several buttons to a UINavigationItem in my iOS 6 app. All documentation I found only spoke about the standard buttons on a UINavigationItem which are backBarButtonItem, leftBarButtonItem and rightBarButtonItem. Well, not enough for me: I needed 2 buttons to be displayed on the left side of my navigation. After hours … <\/p>\n