Question

How can a button be added to a navigation toolbar in an application which is navigation based?

The rootController is a tableView by default, and this is perfect. I would like to add a “share” button to the navigation controller so that I can attach it to my own method.

How is this done if the navigation bar is added in the code somewhere?

Answer 1

To do it in code, go to your views viewDidLoad method and create a UIBarButtonItem

This code will create a button that says share like you wanted and put it on the right hand side of the navigation bar.

- (void)viewDidLoad {
     [super viewDidLoad];
     UIBarButtonItem *shareButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Share"     style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered target:self action:@selector(share)];

    self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = shareButton;
    [shareButton release];
}