Question

I want to have a navigation bar with a settings button on it that stays there regardless of which tab it is on.

Sorry for the short message its late for me,

Chase

Answer 1

What you can do is drag a UIToolBar onto your storyboard controllers and set the buttons and the actions you want there. You could make all your controllers extend form the same base class as to not have to repeat your code, as well as instantiate this toolbar in code if you find it more pleasing.

The problem will be when it comes to using navigation as the navbar will replace/overlap with this toolbar.

UIToolbar *myToolbar = [[UIToolbar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, self.view.bounds.size.width, 44)];

UIBarButtonItem *myButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithTitle:@"Title" 
                                                             style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered 
                                                            target:self
                                                            action:@selector(myAction:)];


[myToolbar setItems:[NSArray arrayWithObjects:myButton, nil]];

[self.view addSubview:myToolbar];