Overriding drawRect in ios7 fails

Question

For a custom layout in iOS6, i have created a subclass of UINavigationBar and overridden the drawRect method. I specify the class in interface builder, because not every controller needs to have this effect. This is also the reason why i cannot use a category.

But now with iOS7, i want to use the default navigationbar and not the overriden behaviour. The code below does not work:

-(void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect
{
    if([self isOS7]) {
       [super drawRect:rect];
    } 
    else {
        // custom drawing
    }
}

The problem is, by actually defining the drawRect, ios7 fails to correctly draw the navigation bar under the status bar. If i leave out the entire drawrect, it works (but then it doesn't work under older devices!

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can solve it, if you add a new UIView as a Subview and do the stuff there instead in draw rect.

UITableViewCell drawInRect iOS7