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How do I display a red status bar when the home button is pressed while my recoding app is doing some recording?

I checked this question: How to hide the red bar under the iOS's status when recording?

However, I use Core Audio and Extended Audio File Services to do recording. I am unable to find any proper documentation to programatically do this. Any help or pointers will be appreciated.

Red status bar

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Bijoy Thangaraj
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I believe from saying

a red status bar when the home button is pressed

you are asking whether you can set the status bar color to red when your app in background.

The red status bar is an indication that an application is recording audio, and it is set by the system. There is nothing in sdk that supports us to change the status bar color when your application is in the background.

See this official forum thread (login required) where this question is addressed, and the guy who answeres it is an Apple employee.

EDIT :

If your app is trying to record in the background, but your problem is that red color is not visible on status bar, then one reason can be because your audio recording session is getting terminated/paused. Try and register for a completion handler for your recording, and see if it fires earlier than you expects it to fire.

Krishnabhadra
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  • Yes, I am asking whether I can set the status bar color to red when your my app is in background, doing audio recording. I understand that the red status bar is an indication that an application is recording audio. However, even when my app is recording and is entering the background, I don't see a red status bar. That is why I posted this question. Again, as I mentioned in the question, I'm using Core Audio and Extended Audio File Services to do recording. – Bijoy Thangaraj Jan 11 '13 at 08:43
  • Does recording happen even in the background? I mean is recording part working correctly, without the red status bar? – Krishnabhadra Jan 11 '13 at 08:44
  • I've adding "App plays audio" to "Required background modes", and so recording does happen in the background. – Bijoy Thangaraj Jan 11 '13 at 08:50
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This is private, but works

 [[[UIApplication sharedApplication] statusBar] setTintColor:[UIColor redColor] withDuration:3.2]

of course that will get rejected in the store.

Ideally you could just add a category onto UIStatusBar and override drawRect:, which is how I used to tint my nav bars, but it looks like that class is private as well.

There are probably a few runtime hacks that might get you around it, but you'd still running the risk of having your app thrown out later.

Perhaps apple will open this one up later on, as they did with the nav and tab bars?

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