Use an image as your UIBarButtonItem

Using an image as your UIBarButtonItem in your navigationcontroller bar can only be achieved by using a common UIButton as the BarButtonItem's custom view.

This is an example on how you can achieve that. It takes a target, selector and image name and returns a UIBarButtonItem as an image.

+(UIBarButtonItem*) getBarButton:(id)target withSelector:(SEL)selector andImage:(NSString*)imageName

{

    //Create image

    UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:imageName];

    

    //Create UIButton with the imag

    UIButton *button = [UIButton buttonWithType:UIButtonTypeCustom];

    button.bounds = CGRectMake(0, 0, image.size.width, image.size.height);

    [button setImage:image forState:UIControlStateNormal];

    [button addTarget:target action:selector forControlEvents:UIControlEventTouchUpInside];

    //Create UIBarButtonItem with customview button

    UIBarButtonItem *barButton = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithCustomView:button];

    

    return barButton;

}