Adjust position of bar button item when using larg

Question

I am using the large title navbar with iOS 11, but when I add a bar button item it looks weird positioned in the same location as the original title navbar. I would like to move the bar button item down when the title is large, and move it back into its original position when the navbar is no longer large. What would be the best way of doing this?

This is an image showing the weird position of the bar button item

I can get the navbar height dynamically using the viewWillLayoutSubviews(), but I can't change the position of the bar button item using setTitlePositionAdjustment

override func viewWillLayoutSubviews() {
    guard let navbarHeight = self.navigationController?.navigationBar.frame.height else{ return }
}

Answer 1

What you want to do is set the title position adjustments of the BarButtonItem. Add the following line to the viewWillAppear func. Play with the vertical and horizontal value to get the layout of ur liking.

navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem?.setTitlePositionAdjustment(.init(horizontal: 10, vertical: 20), for: UIBarMetrics.default)

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uibarbuttonitem/1617149-settitlepositionadjustment

Answer 2

The good way is you can adjust the navigation title if its large so that your bar button will adjust automatically. Here is the code. Also iOS mail application does the same thing for your reference.

func adjustsTitle() {
 guard let font = UIFont(name: "Helvetica-Medium", size: 16) else { return }
 let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 20))
 label.textColor = UIColor.black
 label.textAlignment = .center
 label.text = navigationItem.title
 label.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = true
 navigationItem.titleView = label
}

Updated Answer If you want to adjust button below the title if it grows then in this case you need to load the custom view on your navigation bar.

//Hide back button. Since you are going to have custom button
navigationItem.hidesBackButton = true
//Increase the height based on your view intrinsic content size
navigationController?.navigationBar.frame.size.height = 100
guard let yourCustomView = UINib(nibName: "yourCustomXib", bundle: nil).instantiate(withOwner: nil, options: nil).first as? YourCustomView else {
 fatalError("Missing yourCustomXib")
}
navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(yourCustomView)

Answer 3

To solve my own problem, I just added a button as a subview of the navbar and set the right and bottom constraints to the navbar. The button will now move up and down when the navbar changes size. However, this requires the button to be removed in any view controllers that you show segue from this view controller. Thus, I added a tag of 1 to the button and removed it from its superview from the other view controller. This is the easiest way to solve it, and I found it the easiest method.

To setup the right button:

func setupNavBar() {

    self.title = "Home"
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.prefersLargeTitles = true
    self.navigationController?.navigationBar.isTranslucent = false

    let searchController = UISearchController(searchResultsController: nil)
    self.navigationItem.searchController = searchController

    let rightButton = UIButton()
    rightButton.setTitle("Right Button", for: .normal)
    rightButton.setTitleColor(.purple, for: .normal)
    rightButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(rightButtonTapped(_:)), for: .touchUpInside)
    navigationController?.navigationBar.addSubview(rightButton)
    rightButton.tag = 1
    rightButton.frame = CGRect(x: self.view.frame.width, y: 0, width: 120, height: 20)

    let targetView = self.navigationController?.navigationBar

    let trailingContraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: rightButton, attribute:
        .trailingMargin, relatedBy: .equal, toItem: targetView,
                         attribute: .trailingMargin, multiplier: 1.0, constant: -16)
    let bottomConstraint = NSLayoutConstraint(item: rightButton, attribute: .bottom, relatedBy: .equal,
                                    toItem: targetView, attribute: .bottom, multiplier: 1.0, constant: -6)
    rightButton.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
    NSLayoutConstraint.activate([trailingContraint, bottomConstraint])

}

To remove it from any show segued view controllers:

func removeRightButton(){
    guard let subviews = self.navigationController?.navigationBar.subviews else{return}
    for view in subviews{
        if view.tag != 0{
            view.removeFromSuperview()
        }
    }
} 

Both functions are called in the viewWillAppear function