Misaligned title in UINavigationBar since iOS6

Question

Ever since iOS 6 I have several problems with using custom styling in my application. I use a custom font and several `UIAppearance` proxies. A problem I can't get my head around is the misalignment of the title in my UINavigationBar. In iOS 5 everything worked fine and was correctly aligned. Since iOS6 has been released and custom styling is not uncommon I assume this isn't a bug but my misunderstanding of some new change to iOS6. I've searched the documentation for a text alignment method to call on the UIAppearance proxy, but I was unable to find such a method. I use the following lines of code to style my UINavigationBar across my entire application: ``` [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"NavigationBarBackground"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; [[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"NavigationBarBackground"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsLandscapePhone]; [[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:[NSDic…

Accepted Answer

Same issue here, but I noticed it doesn't happen when the navigation bar has either a back button or a right bar button (table edit). The alignment on the title is also fixed when navigating to a new view controller and then going back to the first one...

What I think that is happening is that iOS calculates the position of the frame of the title based on the default font, because the font I use is a bit smaller the title misaligns a bit to the left of the center.

My current fix is calling `setNeedsLayout` in viewWillAppear. Seems to be working.

```
- (void) viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

if (self.navigationItem.hidesBackButton || self.navigationItem.rightBarButtonItem == nil) {
        [self.navigationController.navigationBar setNeedsLayout];
    }
}
```

Misaligned title in UINavigationBar since iOS6

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