Setting font and font-size of title bar text in a UITableViewController

Question

I have a simple navigation based application for the iphone/objective-c

within various UIViewControllers that are pushed into view, I can set the text in the title bar using something like

self.title = @"blah blah blah"

Is there a way to control the font and font-size of the title in the title bar text?

thanks!

Answer 1

You can assign any UIView to a navcontroller's title area.

Create a UILabel and set its font and size anyway you want, then assign it to the UIViewController's navigationItem.titleView property. Make sure the UILabel's backgroundColor is set to clearColor.

This only works on the top-level nav-view. As the user drills down into the view controller hierarchy and the "back" button is shown the alternate titleView is ignored and the regular text label is shown.