Question

A designer asked me to add pagination to a UINavigation bar in a project with its target building for ios4.3+.

I know you can add two buttons to the right side of a Navigation bar as explained here in this blog : enter link description here

But to get the appearance requested to by the designer

Do I need to add images to my button or is this some kind of native control(Special UISegmentedControl?) I haven’t seen before? Or Just 2 custom buttons with background images.

Thanks,
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Answer 1

I implemented the same function with a segmented control and without defining custom buttons with images.Instead of adding images for arrows i used the the corresponding Unicode chars and instantiated the segmented control with them.

    UISegmentedControl *toggleSegmentedControl = [[UISegmentedControl alloc] initWithItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"\u25B2",@"\u25BC",nil]];

UIBarButtonItem *toggleSegmentedControlBarItem = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:toggleSegmentedControl];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = toggleSegmentedControlBarItem; 

Then your leftBarButtonItem is replaced by the segmented control.