ios - Is there a way to have custom UIBarButtonItems in a Toolbar that go against the HIG? -

these human interface guidelines uitoolbar icons, , bar button icons.

i want doesn't follow hig.

basically want solid rounded , flat colored uibutton, text overtop. (however, don't want text apart of image obvious reasons).

can accomplished?

can draw uibarbuttonitem .cornerradius = 5.0. believe that'suibutton only.

or can use masked png image uibarbuttonitem, apply tintcolor change images mask, , overlay text on top?

or have fake/mimic creating auitoolbar, , create 44 pixel lightgreyuiview @ bottom of yourview?

how can accomplished, , rejected violating hig?

you can go uitoolbar & have uibarbuttonitem added that. since uibarbuttonitem inherited uibaritem & nsobject, have minimal features modify.

use following code initiate items in uitoolbar way have custom uibutton uitoolbaritem.

to change button background color different state, may have hold button state toggles in array, , change color depending on state

here fresh code that:

uitoolbar *toolbar = [[uitoolbar alloc]initwithframe:cgrectmake(0,55, self.view.bounds.size.width, 55)]; toolbar.tintcolor = [uicolor redcolor]; [self.view addsubview:toolbar];  nsmutablearray *temparray = [[nsmutablearray alloc]init]; buttonstatearray = [[nsmutablearray alloc]init]; for(int =0; < 3; i++){     uibutton *tempbutton = [[uibutton alloc]initwithframe:cgrectmake(0, 0, 100, 30)];     tempbutton.backgroundcolor = [uicolor redcolor];     tempbutton.layer.cornerradius = 8;     tempbutton.layer.borderwidth = 2;     tempbutton.tag = i;     tempbutton.layer.bordercolor = [uicolor blackcolor].cgcolor;     [tempbutton settitle:[nsstring stringwithformat:@"hello %d", i] forstate:uicontrolstatenormal];     [tempbutton addtarget:self action:@selector(displaytapped:) forcontrolevents:uicontroleventtouchupinside];     [temparray addobject:[[uibarbuttonitem alloc]initwithcustomview:tempbutton]];      [buttonstatearray addobject:[nsnumber numberwithbool:no]]; }  [toolbar setitems:temparray]; 

now target method of button

-(void)displaytapped:(uibutton *)sender{ bool state = [[buttonstatearray objectatindex:sender.tag] boolvalue]; [buttonstatearray replaceobjectatindex:sender.tag withobject:[nsnumber numberwithbool:!state]]; if(!state){     sender.backgroundcolor = [[uicolor blackcolor] colorwithalphacomponent:0.5]; }else {     sender.backgroundcolor = [uicolor redcolor]; } 

}

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