UIStatusBarStyleLightContent for MFMailComposeViewController

Question

Can you please suggest me, what is the proper way to setup the style of statusbar for MFMailComposeViewController in iOS >= 9.0? I know, that [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent]; is deprecated and I can't use it. I know that the possible solution is adding category like this:

#import "MFMailComposeViewController+StatusBarStyle.h"
@implementation MFMailComposeViewController (StatusBarStyle)
#pragma mark - Status bar management
- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}
- (UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle {
    return nil;
}
@end

But in this case I should enable View controller-based status bar appearance option and implement - (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle in the all ViewContollers that exist in my app (and I have a lot of them). So, is there another solution?

it is wrong to add a category when you want to override something, so it is not a solution at all — igrek, Nov 14 '17 at 14:39
refer to https://stackoverflow.com/a/5272612/907692 for details — igrek, Nov 14 '17 at 14:47

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '17 at 14:13

Okay, I created my own CommonNavigationViewController, added these two methods:

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

- (UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle {
    return nil;
}

And changed the class of Root Navigation Controller in Storyboard to this one. It helps and now the all VCs that appears in Navigation Controller's stack have the Light Status bar. But anyway, I don't like this solution :(

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 01 '18 at 11:32

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(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}

Add this to yourviewcontroller.m file.

edited Oct 01 '18 at 11:32

Ishara Madhawa

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answered Oct 01 '18 at 07:33

Bhatt Shubham

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UIStatusBarStyleLightContent for MFMailComposeViewController

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