In my iPhone application built with Xcode 5 for iOS 7 I set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance=YES
in info.plist
, and in my ViewController
I have this code:
-(UIStatusBarStyle) preferredStatusBarStyle
{
return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}
But the status bar is still black against the black background.
I know its possible to change this app-wide by setting UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance=NO
in info.plist
, but I actually need to alter this on a viewController
by viewController
basis at runtime.
I discovered that if your ViewController is inside a navigationController then the navigationController’s navigationBar.barStyle
determines the statusBarStyle.
Setting your navigationBar’s barStyle
to UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent
will give white status bar text (ie. UIStatusBarStyleLightContent
), and UIBarStyleDefault
will give black status bar text (ie. UIStatusBarStyleDefault
).
Note that this applies even if you totally change the navigationBar’s color via its barTintColor
.