iPhone SDK - make UINavigationBar transparent

Question

How do you make a UINavigationBar transparent? Though I want its bar items to remain visible.

Answer 1

Do you mean entirely transparent, or using the translucent-black style seen in the Photos app? The latter you can accomplish by setting its barStyle property to UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent. The former... I'm not sure about. If you want the items on it to still be visible, you might have to do some digging around in the bar's view hierarchy and remove the view containing its background.

Answer 2

This seems to work:

@implementation UINavigationBar (custom)
- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect {}
@end

navgationController.navigationBar.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];