UINavigationItem centering the title

Question

I have a navigationBar with both Left and Right bar buttons on each side. I have a customTitlelabel which I set as the titleView of the UINavigationItem.

[self.navigationItem setTitleView:customTitleLabel];

All is fine now. The problem, the size of the rightbarButton is dynamic based on the input I get in one of the text fields.

Therefore the title is automatically centered based on the available space between the buttons.

how can i set the title to a fixed position?

Answer 1

The right answer is to override sizeThatFits: of your custom titleView and return its content size. Navigation bar centers custom title view until it has no space left to do that.

For example if you have UIView container with UILabel inside:

@interface CustomTitleView : UIView

@property UILabel* textLabel;

@end

@implementation CustomTitleView

- (CGSize)sizeThatFits:(CGSize)size {
    CGSize textSize = [self.textLabel sizeThatFits:size];
    CGSize contentSize = size;
    contentSize.width = MIN( size.width, textSize.width );

    return contentSize;
}

@end