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iOS

Posted by Steven Rayzman
Steven Rayzman
2,423 Points

Navigation Item

How can I change the color of the Navigation Item using swift? Stone Preston Stephen Whitfield

Nick Janes
Nick Janes
5,487 Points

Navigation Item?

Steven Rayzman
Steven Rayzman
2,423 Points

the back button

4 Answers

Stephen Whitfield
Stephen Whitfield
16,771 Points

I actually misled you a bit. The bar buttons added in Storyboard are custom buttons and you wouldn't get the back bar button that you get for free from creating a navigation stack. You'd have to create your own back bar button indicator image and explicitly define a method that pops the current view off the nav stack and assign it to this custom button, but lets not do all of that. Just stick with the code I gave you earlier and put it in your "viewWillAppear" method.

Steven Rayzman
Steven Rayzman
2,423 Points

Thank you so much, it worked perfectly! Happy holidays.

Stephen Whitfield
Stephen Whitfield
16,771 Points
Stephen Whitfield
Stephen Whitfield
16,771 Points
  1. Set the tintColor of the nav bar to the color you want to use for the back bar button, then set the back bar button.
self.navigationController?.navigationBar.tintColor = UIColor.redColor()
        self.navigationItem.backBarButtonItem?.tintColor = UIColor.redColor()
Stephen Whitfield
Stephen Whitfield
16,771 Points
Stephen Whitfield
Stephen Whitfield
16,771 Points

If you are adding bar buttons in Storyboard, you have the luxury of setting the bar buttons each to whichever color you choose in the attributes inspector. Are you Storyboarding or building this app programmatically?

Steven Rayzman
Steven Rayzman
2,423 Points

I am storyboarding, but the back button only shows in the simulator, and I am unsure of how to select it in the storyboard. Could you tell me how? Stephen Whitfield

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

What do you mean by navigation item exactly? The whole navigation bar text? the back button only?

if you want the color to be application wide you should put it in the app delegate under did finish launching with options using the UIAppearance proxy

UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = SomeColorHere
        UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: SomeColorHere]
Steven Rayzman
Steven Rayzman
2,423 Points

Sorry, I meant the back button. Stone Preston