How can I customize the color of the Navigation Bar?

Question

I am BRAND new to iOS development and am building my first app using Xcode 4.3.2 for iOS5. I am also using storyboards.

I want the background color of my navigation bar to be black instead of the default blue color for all of my views in the storyboard. I have researched everywhere and cannot find anything that works. Either the code generates error messages or its not clear (to me) where to put it. Can anyone help?!!!

Answer 1

Have you tried...

UIImage *image = [UIImage imageNamed:@"navBarImg.png"];
[self.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundImage:image forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];

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