Creating a Custom Navigation Bar

Often times, we want to create our own Navigation Bars in order to get the right look for our app.

Step 1: Add and Setup NavigationController

Using Navigation Controllers

Step 2: Add Nav Bar Image and Button in Storyboard

• With the NavigationController selected, go to the properties pane and uncheck, "Show navigation bar".
• Drag an ImageView containing your custom navigation bar image to the top of each ViewController.
• Add a button on top of the "Back" part of the navigation bar image and delete the button text.

Step 3: Configure Back Button

• Create a new ViewController Swift file. Creating Custom View Controllers
• Add an action from your back button. Configure a Button
• Add code to go back to the previous ViewController. navigationController!.popViewControllerAnimated(true) Using Navigation Controllers

Step 4: Run your app!