How to hide UINavigationBar 1px bottom line

Question

I have an app that sometimes needs its navigation bar to blend in with the content.

Does anyone know how to get rid of or to change color of this annoying little bar?

On the image below situation i have - i'm talking about this 1px height line below "Root View Controller"

Answer 1

I Just created an extension for this... Sorry about formatting (this is my first answer).

Usage:

  override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    self.navigationController?.hideShadow = true
}

Extension:

 UINavigationController.swift
//  Created by Ricardo López Rey on 16/7/15.

import Foundation


struct UINavigationControllerExtension {
    static var hideShadowKey : String = "HideShadow"
static let backColor = UIColor(red: 247/255, green: 247/255, blue: 248/255, alpha: 1.0)
}

extension UINavigationController {

    var hideShadow : Bool {
        get {
            if let ret =  objc_getAssociatedObject(self, &UINavigationControllerExtension.hideShadowKey) as? Bool {
                return ret
            } else {
                return false
            }


        }
        set {
            objc_setAssociatedObject(self,&UINavigationControllerExtension.hideShadowKey,newValue, objc_AssociationPolicy(OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC))

            if newValue {


            self.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(solidImage(UINavigationControllerExtension.backColor), forBarMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)

                self.navigationBar.shadowImage = solidImage(UIColor.clearColor())
            } else {
                self.navigationBar.setBackgroundImage(nil, forBarMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)
            }
        }
    }

    private func solidImage(color: UIColor, size: CGSize = CGSize(width: 1,height: 1)) -> UIImage {
        var rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, size.width, size.height)
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(size, false, 0)
        color.setFill()
        UIRectFill(rect)
        var image: UIImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
        return image
    }


}

Answer 2

Simple solution in swift

   let navigationBar = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
    navigationBar?.setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarPosition: UIBarPosition.Any, barMetrics: UIBarMetrics.Default)
    navigationBar?.shadowImage = UIImage()

Answer 3

Swift put this

UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(UIImage(), forBarPosition: .Any, barMetrics: .Default)
UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()

in

func application(application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [NSObject: AnyObject]?) -> Bool

Answer 4

The swift way to do it:

UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(
    UIImage(),
    forBarPosition: .Any,
    barMetrics: .Default)

UINavigationBar.appearance().shadowImage = UIImage()

Answer 5

Another option if you want to preserve translucency and you don't want to subclass every UINavigationController in your app:

#import <objc/runtime.h>

@implementation UINavigationController (NoShadow)

+ (void)load {
    Method original = class_getInstanceMethod(self, @selector(viewWillAppear:));
    Method swizzled = class_getInstanceMethod(self, @selector(swizzled_viewWillAppear:));
    method_exchangeImplementations(original, swizzled);
}

+ (UIImageView *)findHairlineImageViewUnder:(UIView *)view {
    if ([view isKindOfClass:UIImageView.class] && view.bounds.size.height <= 1.0) {
        return (UIImageView *)view;
    }

    for (UIView *subview in view.subviews) {
        UIImageView *imageView = [self findHairlineImageViewUnder:subview];
        if (imageView) {
            return imageView;
        }
    }

    return nil;
}

- (void)swizzled_viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    UIImageView *shadow = [UINavigationController findHairlineImageViewUnder:self.navigationBar];
    shadow.hidden = YES;

    [self swizzled_viewWillAppear:animated];
}

@end

Answer 6

Objective C Answer to Above Question

// removing 1px line of navigation bar

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage alloc]init] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setShadowImage:[[UIImage alloc] init]];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTranslucent:NO];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTintColor:[UIColor yourColor]];