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how to remove padding left UIBarButtonItem?

I would like to use a custom View as UIBarButtonItem left in an UINavigationController, is it possible to remove the left padding here?

Ill alrady tried:

let  btn = UIButton()
btn.frame = CGRect(x: -50, y: -50, width: 44, height: 50)
btn.setImage(UIImage(name:"img").withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate), for: .normal)
btn.addTarget(self, action: #selector(openSetting), for: .touchUpInside)

let leftButtonBar = UIBarButtonItem(customView: btn)

self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems = ( [leftButtonBar , otherBtn ])

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how to remove space left setting icon

update. tired this code: 

let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 50, height: 
view.backgroundColor = .gray
let  btn = UIButton()
btn.frame = CGRect(x: -15, y: 0, width: 44, height: 50)
btn.setImage(UIImage(name:"img").withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate), for: .normal)
btn.addTarget(self, action: #selector(DashboardTabBarController.openSetting), for: .touchUpInside)
view.addSubview(btn)
let leftButtonBar = UIBarButtonItem(customView: view)

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problem this user when clicked btn setting user and other problem title navigation not center align

Solution

  • You should have noticed that whatever x value you provide to your custom view i.e, btn, it will always start from the same position because internally navigation bar doesn't count for position provided for that item and it always set the internally defined position as in below image, I set the background color to the custom button for better visuals.

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    So, the trick here is to put your custom button into another container view as below,

    let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: CGSize(width: 200, height: 50)))
view.backgroundColor = .green
let  btn = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: -10, y: 10 , width: 30, height: 30))
btn.setImage(UIImage(named: "cancelled")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate), for: .normal)
btn.addTarget(self, action: #selector(openSetting), for: .touchUpInside)
btn.backgroundColor = .yellow
btn.tintColor = .red
view.addSubview(btn)

let  btn2 = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: 20, y: 10, width: 30, height: 30))
btn2.setImage(UIImage(named: "cancelled")?.withRenderingMode(.alwaysTemplate), for: .normal)
btn2.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
btn2.tintColor = .yellow
btn2.addTarget(self, action: #selector(openSetting), for: .touchUpInside)
view.addSubview(btn2)

let itemsContainer = UIBarButtonItem(customView: view)
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItems = [itemsContainer]

    This will result into this,

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    Now, if you change the x, y, width, height of btn, it will adjust accordingly.