Animate a UIBarButtonItem using Swift

Make it look good!

Photo by Onur Binay on Unsplash

Before we start

Difficulty: Beginner | Easy | Normal | Challenging

This article has been developed using Xcode 12.2, and Swift 5.3

Keywords and Terminology

UINavigationBar: A bar containing buttons for navigating within the hierarchy of screens

This article

Background

I’ve always wanted to create great user experiences. One way of doing this is to put lovely animations onto your UI. The UINavigationBar is a great opportunity for that.

The Repo

I’ve prepared a Repo

The Project

I started off the project and in the storyboard embedded the UIViewController instance in a UINavigationController, and then a UIBarButtonItem is added using the storyboard.

The image can then be chosen using the storyboard. Select the storyboard, and then find bar button item in the components by choosing with + and selecting the bar button item