I have a navigation view controller and there are 3 view controllers in the navigation stack. Now on the third and top most visible view controller I have a default back button coming in.
I need to bring this view controller in edit mode which I did... Now the requirement is to have a cancel button as the left bar button item instead of back button.
This is similar to the functionality given by contacts application of iPhone where you edit a particular contact.
Any clue how to achieve this?
To hide back button and add a left bar button use-
[self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:TRUE];
UIBarButtonItem *leftBarButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemCancel target:self action:@selector()];
[self.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItem:leftBarButton];
[leftBarButton release];
And then to programmatically return to the previous view controller, you can do-
[self.navigationController popViewControllerAnimated:YES];
This is a simpler way:
[self.navigationItem setHidesBackButton:YES];
If you are using storyboard, you can also just drag a bar button item onto the navbar where the back button would normally show up. This will override it.