iPhone hide Navigation Bar only on first page

Question

I have the code below that hides and shows the navigational bar. It is hidden when the first view loads and then hidden when the "children" get called. Trouble is that I cannot find the event/action to trigger it to hide again when they get back to the root view....I have a "test" button on the root page that manually does the action but it is not pretty and I want it to be automatic.

-(void)hideBar {

    self.navController.navigationBarHidden = YES;
}
-(void)showBar {

    self.navController.navigationBarHidden = NO;
}

Answer 1

I would put the code in the viewWillAppear delegate on each view being shown:

Like this where you need to hide it:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
        [yourObject hideBar];
}

Like this where you need to show it:

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
        [yourObject showBar];
}

Answer 2

If what you want is to hide the navigation bar completely in the controller, a much cleaner solution is to, in the root controller, have something like:

@implementation MainViewController
- (void)viewDidLoad {
    self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden=YES;
    //...extra code on view load  
}

When you push a child view in the controller, the Navigation Bar will remain hidden; if you want to display it just in the child, you'll add the code for displaying it(self.navigationController.navigationBarHidden=NO;) in the viewWillAppear callback, and similarly the code for hiding it on viewWillDisappear

Answer 3

The nicest solution I have found is to do the following in the first view controller.

- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:YES animated:animated];
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];
}

- (void) viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [self.navigationController setNavigationBarHidden:NO animated:animated];
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];
}

This will cause the navigation bar to animate in from the left (together with the next view) when you push the next UIViewController on the stack, and animate away to the left (together with the old view), when you press the back button on the NavigationBar.

Please note also that these are not delegate methods, you are overriding UIViewController's implementation of these methods, and according to the documentation you must call the super's implementation somewhere in your implementation.