Question

I am using a MKUserTrackingBarButtonItem to toggle my MKMapView’s usertrackingMode.

• Is it possible to move this button out of my Toolbar and place it on a normal UIView?
• Of course, I could implement the behavior of the button myself. Do you have any resources for the icons used in this button?

Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

So it seems there is no way to directly add any kind of bar button item to a UIView. We’re going to have to subclass UIToolbar to make a totally invisible toolbar. Override - (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect and put nothing, not even a [super drawRect]. Then, in init, run the following code:

self = [super init];
self.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
self.opaque = NO;
self.translucent = YES;

return self;

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