Would you ever use this, or have you ever thought about something like it? (custom Nav Controller for iPhone)

Question

Here's a little blogpost on the library: http://www.andrewljohnson.com/article/Customizing%20UINavigationControlBar%20-%20Controls%20and%20Images

And here's a link directly to the GitHub repository: http://github.com/andrewljohnson/NavControlBar/tree/master

I searched SO and the rest of the internets for how best to do this recently, and I decided this was the way!

Answer 1

We have something like this for an app we are working on so we can have custom view transitions.

A piece of advice, if you want this to work correctly with view controllers written to work in a normal navigation controller you need to manually invoke their view(Will|Did)(Appear|Disappear): methods at the appropriate times.

Also, in order to make -[UIViewController navigationController] work in the expected way with your navigation controllers you have to do some particularly unsavory things.