How to add custom buttons to a UINavigationBar?

Question

So as my question states, I'm trying to add custom buttons to a UINavigationBar. AFAIK, you can only add a leftbutton and a rightbutton. However, I want to add 2 more, 1 on each side of the title. Is there any way to do this? :)

Answer 1

You can easily add more buttons to both sides by accessing the following:

1. create programatically the buttons that you want.
2. get a reference to the navigationitem buttons array

3. add the buttons to the array like this:

   rightAddButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd target:self action:@selector(doSomething:)]; 
   
   editButtonItem = ....; 
   
   self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItems = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:self.editButtonItem,rightAddButton,nil];
   

Answer 2

Other than what you mentioned, UINavigationItem has two more properties called leftBarButtonItems and rightBarButtonItems. You can use those properties to add multiple items.

Always suggest developers to loop up the documentation.