swift xcode change status bar (background color)

Question

In one view I am hiding the navigation bar using:

override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    self.navigationController?.navigationBarHidden = true
    }

This makes the status bar background color appear as white. But how do I change the background color of the status bar?

I think you should change your view's or root window's background color as I suspect that your status bar is transparent. — Ozgur Vatansever, Jul 20 '15 at 01:34
@ozgur My status bar is red, with white text, or it used to be. But the root view has red background color and white text — user2722667, Jul 20 '15 at 01:37
@ozgur If I set the background color of the viewcontrollers root view to eg red. It looks fine. But since I have an scroll view and then scroll to the bottom it will show a red background color at the bottom as well. When you scroll to the end and keep dragging, that bounce effect will show a red color — user2722667, Jul 20 '15 at 01:42
The status bar doesn't have a *background* color any more... does it? — nhgrif, Jul 20 '15 at 01:50
status bar can have only two styles, default (which is black) and light content. - http://rshankar.com/how-to-customize-status-bar-in-ios/ — rshankar, Jul 20 '15 at 02:58
@rshankar the status bar can take the navigation bars tint color. Is there no way to keep that tint color once the navigation bar is hidden? — user2722667, Jul 20 '15 at 19:15
@nhgrif It can take the navigation bars tint color. I am hiding the navigation bar for one view which results in the status bar appearing as white — user2722667, Jul 20 '15 at 19:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '15 at 03:21

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You can have a light color and dark color for your status bar

 UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(.LightContent, animated: true)

(or)

  UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(.Default, animated: true)

answered Jul 20 '15 at 03:21

Aditya Koukuntla

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This only makes the text / background white or black. I want to set the background color of the status bar to red – user2722667 Jul 20 '15 at 18:54

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 07 '16 at 08:59

You can change the status bar styles by setting a key "Status Bar Style" in the info.plist.

The following three different styles are present for status bars:- Status bar style - String

You can also change the setting from all view controllers to view controller based status bar, by changing the following key in the info.plist:-

View controller-based status bar appearance - Boolean

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