objective c - iOS7 excessive navigationbar button padding

Question

I'm experiencing excessive UIBarButtonItem padding/spacing when using the LeftBarItems and RightBarItems (see image below). The icons used on the UIBarButtonItems do not contain extra padding. So I would like to know what's causing this?

Answer 1

I use this in order to remove space before the first item.

However it doesn't work between system items like UIBarButtonSystemItemAdd, only with UIBarButtonItem that has an image.

@interface UIBarButtonItem (NegativeSpacer)
+(UIBarButtonItem*)negativeSpacerWithWidth:(NSInteger)width;
@end
@implementation UIBarButtonItem (NegativeSpacer)
+(UIBarButtonItem*)negativeSpacerWithWidth:(NSInteger)width {
    UIBarButtonItem *item = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc]
                             initWithBarButtonSystemItem:UIBarButtonSystemItemFixedSpace
                             target:nil
                             action:nil];
    item.width = (width >= 0 ? -width : width);
    return item;
}
@end

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Use it like this:

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UIBarButtonItem *item0 = [UIBarButtonItem negativeSpacerWithWidth:13];
UIBarButtonItem *item1 = [[UIBarButtonItem alloc] initWithImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"sidebar.png"]
                                                          style:UIBarButtonItemStylePlain
                                                         target:vc
                                                         action:@selector(sideMenuAction:)];
NSArray* items = @[item0, item1];
[vc.navigationItem setLeftBarButtonItems:items animated:NO];
[vc.navigationItem setLeftItemsSupplementBackButton:YES];