UIBarButtonItemGrouping

iOS category on UINavigationItem to easily group bar button items

This category will group the bar button items into the given spots

What does this category

Basically rearanges the right bar button items (or left) to fit into a number of spots, the overflow items are grouped into a UIActionSheet.

Imagine you need to add 6 bar buttons to the right bar button items

#####Without grouping

#####Grouping with 2 spots

#####Grouping with 3 spots and overflow button selected

Demo

Check the sample project to see how this category works

How to use it

• Add the "UINavigationItem+BarButtonGrouping.h" and "UINavigationItem+BarButtonGrouping.m" files to your project

• Import the header on your View Controller

#import "UINavigationItem+BarButtonGrouping.h"

• Call the method to group the bar button items setting the available spots

[self.navigationItem groupRightBarButtonItems:numOfAvailableSpots];

Thats it!