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swift - navigation controller remove back button arrow

I have an application in swift, where the view controllers are inbedded in a navigation controller, now in the 2nd and 3rd viewcontroller, on the back button, there is a blue arrow pointing backwards (it is there by default). I have tried to remove this, but when I want to have an image there, the image gets all squished up. Does anyone know how you would go about removing the back-button arrow, and replace it with an image? Thanks alot!

Solution

  • Use this....

    Set Text:

    let backBtn = UIBarButtonItem(title: "Back", style: UIBarButtonItemStyle.Plain, target: self, action: "BtnTapBack:")
navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem = backBtn
navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem?.setTitleTextAttributes([NSFontAttributeName: UIFont(name: "YourFontName", size: 20)!], forState: UIControlState.Normal)

    Set Image:

    let image = UIImage(named:"YourImageName") as UIImage!
var btnBack:UIButton = UIButton.buttonWithType(UIButtonType.Custom) as! UIButton
btnBack.addTarget(self, action: "BtnTapBack:", forControlEvents: UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
btnBack.setImage(image, forState: UIControlState.Normal)
btnBack.setTitleColor(UIColor.blueColor(), forState: UIControlState.Normal)
btnBack.sizeToFit()
var myCustomBackButtonItem:UIBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(customView: btnBack)
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem  = myCustomBackButtonItem

    Action go to the previous viewcontroller

    @IBAction func BtnTapBack(sender: UIButton) {
        navigationController?.popViewControllerAnimated(true)
}