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Max
Max

Reputation: 2094

Cannot set iOS Status Bar Colour for View

I am developing an app for iOS8, using Swift 1.2.

However, I am having an issue with the colour of the status bar (the one with the time, battery indicator etc).

In my Info.plist file, I have UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance set to YES as well as Status bar style set to UIStatusBarStyleLightContent and then in all my view controllers in the Storyboard, I have the status bar set to "Light Content".

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This works for all of my NavigationViewControllers and views embedded within NavigationViewControllers, however I have one normal TableViewController which is not embedded in a NavigationController, and when I push this view modally, the status bar changes to BLACK!???

Even when I look at the view in the Storyboard editor it shows as a white status bar (note the faint white battery indicator at the right of the below screenshot):

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But when I build and run on my iPhone, the status bar shows as black...

Why is this? How can I fix this? I don't know what could be incorrect.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5994

Answers (5)

Max
Max

Reputation: 2094

UPDATE:

I found the solution to this was very easy, from another StackOverflow article (Swift UIApplication.setStatusBarStyle Doesn't work).

For anyone else wanting to set the status bar colour programmatically, I just inserted the following code into my ViewController for the view in question:

- Swift 4.0+

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .lightContent        
}

- Earlier Swifts (4.0-)

override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
    return .LightContent        
}

Upvotes: 3

Bartando
Bartando

Reputation: 748

For Swift 3

in your AppDelegate.swift file in function didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

UIApplication.shared.statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.lightContent

Upvotes: 1

Jay Bhalani
Jay Bhalani

Reputation: 4171

add this Line in your Appdelegate.swift file :

UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = .LightContent

Upvotes: 0

Mehul Patel
Mehul Patel

Reputation: 23053

These are setups for UIStatusBar style:

  1. Go to AppDelegate.swift in that add below code line in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:

    UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent

  2. Add below keys into .plist file.

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  1. In Storyboard select your controller UINavigationController or UIViewController. And set status bar style as Light Content

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Upvotes: 2

freytag
freytag

Reputation: 4819

Please make sure to add View controller-based status bar appearance (UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance) with value NO to your Info.plist

Upvotes: 3

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