Question

Does anyone have a clue on how to create a multiline navigation/top bar in iOS? I want something similar to the status line in WhatsApp (the one that displays last seen or the current status information).
Any advice would be appreciated.

I want to achieve something like in the image (Francis Whitman / last seen […]):

Answer 1

By default, a UINavigationController will use the title property of the currently-displayed view controller for the title in its navigation bar. You can have it display any arbitrary view, however, by setting the titleView property of the view controller’s navigationItem property, as so:

// In your view controller’s implementation (.m) file:
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibName
               bundle:(NSStirng *)nibBundle
{
    self = [super initWithNibName:nibName bundle:nibBundle];

    if (self) {
        UIView *myTitleView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.0f,
                                                                       0.0f,
                                                                       250.0f,
                                                                       44.0f)];
        [myView setBackgroundColor:[UIColor greenColor]];

        [[self navigationItem] setTitleView:myTitleView];
    }

    return self;
}