Hi I ran into a problem when developing an app. The problem I have is I want to build my apps without the navigation bar, only because I'm not a fan of the current one; but I do use the Tab Bar. But navigation is a real B**ch! Without the navigation bar it's hopeless, I really don't want to use the navigation bar but its looking like I have no choice. I guess my question is, how can I improve the navigation within the app without having to add the navigation bar back into certain pages, which means there is no consistency within the apps pages and design.

could use swipe gestures, make buttons with back button menu tables with back button as the top field

Kittsy, all sounds great, but I have no idea what you are talking about. Sounds like an idea though.

i've wrote a swipe tutorial on the forum somewhere would solve your back button problem. But obviously wouldn't work with a carousel plugin

Kittsy's swipe tutorial http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=70CDE4E619FB0498A9ABE72

that was swift I'm sure I wrote a pdf one

Send me PDF and I'll look at the link. Thanks guys!

I think without a nav bar you will have a lot of UI navigation issues to overcome unless the app has very few pages. As a bit of lateral thinking, maybe consider transparency and an unobtrusive colours (not sure that you can do 'clear') for the nav bar?

Yeah, I agree with you, tried looking into the transparency, but I want full transparency only showing top right and left buttons, but no one has a solution for this. I will need to give it some thought about how I design may apps in the future.

Hacking into the code to make the navbar transparent sounds like Kittsy territory to me...

add the code below under every instance of //setup navigation bar and background [BT_viewUtilities configureBackgroundAndNavBar:self theScreenData:[self screenData]]; in each plugin. a bit of a hack but it works const float colorMask[6] = {222, 255, 222, 255, 222, 255}; UIImage *img = [[UIImage alloc] init]; UIImage *maskedImage = [UIImage imageWithCGImage: CGImageCreateWithMaskingColors(img.CGImage, colorMask)]; [self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:maskedImage forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; if ([self.navigationController.navigationBar respondsToSelector:@selector(shadowImage)]) { [self.navigationController.navigationBar setShadowImage:[[[UIImage alloc] init] autorelease]]; // autorelease is necessary, or else [[UIImage alloc] init]'s retainCount is 2. }

Kittsy I am renaming you to Yoda!

it's just a snippet I found of stackoverflow a while ago