Question

I am looking to add a bar with buttons (buttons to fire actions, not for navigation) under the statusBar and above a custom UIView. My question is, I am not sure if I should be using UINavigationBar and adding UIBarButtonItem or if I should be using UIToolBar (which says it is used at the bottom of the screen) again adding UIBarButtonItem for the button?

Answer 1

You would usually use a UINavigationController for this and set the leftBarButtonItem and rightBarButtonItem of the navigationItem property of the view controller for the custom UIView.

Using UIToolbar is probably not what you want since it has a double border at the top, and a less visible border at the bottom, which would look weird in a toolbar at the top of the interface.