Question

I am developing a navigation based application and I have a custom titleView and a rightBarButtonItem for the navigationBar which i want in all navigation items of my application (like a logo and a menu button which you can access from all views).

Is there any good practice to implement this rather than manually setting the titleView and the rightBarButtonItem every time i push a new viewController ? I am using monotouch.dialog but any tips are welcome, since this seems more like a question about the sdk.

Regards,

Answer 1

You might want to first ask yourself if you really need a UINavigationBar that is directly correlated to the UINavigationController or whether you’d like a static UIToolbar with your content.

Alternatively, you could do what @MartinMoizard is referring to which is subclass UIViewController. I’ve provided samples for both below. Cheers!

public class MyToolbar : UIToolbar
{
    public MyToolbar()
        : base()
    {
        var myTitle = MyCustomUIlabel();
        var myButton = MyCustomUIButton();

        this.SetItems(new UIBarButtonItem[] { 
        myTitle, 
        new UIBarButtonItem(UIBarButtonSystemItem.FlexibleSpace),
        myButton });
    }
}


public class MyViewController : UIViewController
{
    public MyViewController()
        : base()
    {
    }

    public override void ViewDidLoad()
    {
        //
        // .. setup your code hurr' dawg
        //

        this.NavigationItem.RightBarButtonItem = myRightButton;
        this.NavigationItem.Title = "My Title";
    }
}