Add button to navigationbar programmatically

Solution 1:

Inside my UIViewController derived class, I am using the following inside viewDidLoad:

UIBarButtonItem *flipButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] 
                               initWithTitle:@"Flip"                                            
                               style:UIBarButtonItemStyleBordered 
                               target:self 
                               action:@selector(flipView:)];
self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = flipButton;
[flipButton release];

This adds a button to the right hand side with the title Flip, which calls the method:

-(IBAction)flipView

This looks very much like you #3, but it is working within my code.

Solution 2:

UIImage* image3 = [UIImage imageNamed:@"back_button.png"];
CGRect frameimg = CGRectMake(15,5, 25,25);

UIButton *someButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:frameimg];
[someButton setBackgroundImage:image3 forState:UIControlStateNormal];
[someButton addTarget:self action:@selector(Back_btn:)
     forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];
[someButton setShowsTouchWhenHighlighted:YES];

UIBarButtonItem *mailbutton =[[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:someButton];
self.navigationItem.leftBarButtonItem =mailbutton;
[someButton release];

///// called event

-(IBAction)Back_btn:(id)sender
{
    //Your code here
}

SWIFT:

var image3 = UIImage(named: "back_button.png")
var frameimg = CGRect(x: 15, y: 5, width: 25, height: 25)

var someButton = UIButton(frame: frameimg)
someButton.setBackgroundImage(image3, for: .normal)
someButton.addTarget(self, action: Selector("Back_btn:"), for: .touchUpInside)
someButton.showsTouchWhenHighlighted = true

var mailbutton = UIBarButtonItem(customView: someButton)
navigationItem?.leftBarButtonItem = mailbutton

func back_btn(_ sender: Any) {
    //Your code here
}

Solution 3:

To add search button on navigation bar use this code:

 UIBarButtonItem *searchButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemSearch target:self action:@selector(toggleSearch:)];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.topItem.rightBarButtonItem = searchButton;

and implement following method:

- (IBAction)toggleSearch:(id)sender
{
    // do something or handle Search Button Action.
}

Solution 4:

How to add an add button to the navbar in swift:

self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem = UIBarButtonItem(barButtonSystemItem: .Add, target: self, action: "onAdd:")

onAdd:

func onAdd(sender: AnyObject) {
}

Solution 5:

self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem=[[[UIBarButtonItem alloc]initWithTitle:@"Save" style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain target:self action:@selector(saveAction:)]autorelease];

-(void)saveAction:(UIBarButtonItem *)sender{

//perform your action

}