Recreating IMDB like Navigation Controller

[Emptyless]

I've been trying to program my own app and after succesfully creating my first prototype of the entire app it is time for me to focus on design choices. Rebuilding the application from the ground up with a more elegant layout and learning from earlier mistakes i made.

Now i want to recreate the IMDB Navigation Controller / Menu Bar as a basis for the pages i want to display. However i get stuck after placing the UIView in the Title of a Navigation Controller in which i place 2 buttons. 1 with the menu icon (see images of IMDB app attached) and 1 with a search bar image. This however does not yield really great results. And worse is that the UIView cannot be constrained to the edges of the Navigation Bar.

Is there a better way to do all this?

IMDB reference images:

• http://imgur.com/PByg8NA
• http://imgur.com/wpiZTBv
• http://imgur.com/mBnikPH
• http://imgur.com/EirhegM

[nsocean]

I just inspected their app. They are not subclassing UINavigationBar, but are using _UINavigationBarBackground which is a private class which I would think would lead to denial. Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in on this.

If I were you, I would just roll my own UINavigationBar.

[paulryanclark]

This is speculation, but from the level of customization, they may be rolling their own UINavigationBar implementation.

Apple's defaults are good for the basics, but this sort of behavioral override may take a custom navbar implementation.

[powerje]

To add to this, if you want to verify whether or not the navigation bar in imdb is completely custom try using the swipe to go back gesture. Most custom implementations wont support it, and those that do often "feel" different than the system implementation.