Calling super in a category will not call the original implementation of the overridden method; it will call the superclass's implementation. While it is possib

Calling super in a category will not call the original implementation of the overridden method; it will call the superclass's implementation. While it is possible to call the original implementation of something overridden in a category, it involves a lot of ugly code that I wouldn't want to use in production. And if you don't call the original implementation, who knows what will happen to your navbar's drawing in the future? Relying on undefined behavior and implementation details is bad. To me, subclassing UINavigationBar (like I did in the blog post) and overriding layoutSubviews is a cleaner fix and doesn't rely on implementation details and runtime behavior.