How to prevent autoresizing UINavigationBar on Landscape

Question

In generally, on the landscape mode, the navigation bar controlled by navigation controller automatically reduce its size smaller.

But I want to prevent that autoresizing.

First, I set the navigation bar hidden and used another navigation bar not controlled by navigation controller. So, I solved the problem. But I want to find the way to disable autoresizing the navigation bar on landscape without using another bar not controlled by navigation controller.

Booking

why do you want to do this? this is standard iOS behavior. – Cubital

@Cubital Take a look at iOS 7 Safari in landscape ;) – Minutiae

Answer 1

I solved this by creating a category on UINavigationBar:

@implementation UINavigationBar (customHeight)

- (CGSize)sizeThatFits:(CGSize)size
{
    CGSize newSize = CGSizeMake(self.frame.size.width,44);
    return newSize;
}

@end

With the category created, the height now stays fixed at 44 - I don't even need to import the category anywhere.

My app uses storyboards but I'm pretty sure it would work either way.

Director

While this solves the issue, it's not good practice to try and use categories for method overriding purposes. You should do this in a subclass. Read more here: developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/… – Blus

this solution works for the navigation bar, but it moves my toolbar up 10px or so from the bottom of the view... – Graphy

This causes the elements in the bar to no longer be vertically centered. Any way to resolve that? – Fizzy

Answer 2

This will work for iOS 8

extension UINavigationBar {
    public override func sizeThatFits(size: CGSize) -> CGSize {
        var newSize = CGSizeMake(UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.width, 44)
        return newSize
    }
}

Accumbent

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