A status bar is an area typically found at the bottom of Graphical User Interfaces that provide information about the computer, the application or other applications.
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How to change Status Bar text color in iOS
My application has a dark background, but in iOS 7 the status bar became transparent. So I can't see anything there, only the green battery indicator in the corner. How can I change the status bar text color to white like it is on the home screen?
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How do I use DrawerLayout to display over the ActionBar/Toolbar and under the status bar?
I've seen in the new material design Side Nav spec that you can display the drawer over the action bar and behind the status bar. How can I implement this?
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Height of status bar in Android
What's the height of the status bar in Android? Is it always the same?
From my measurements it seems that it's 25dp, but I'm not sure if it has the same height on all platforms.
(I want to know this to properly implement a fade transition from an…
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iOS 7 status bar back to iOS 6 default style in iPhone app?
In iOS 7 the UIStatusBar has been designed in a way that it merges with the view like this:
(GUI designed by Tina Tavčar)
It is cool, but it will somewhat mess up your view when you have something at the top part of your view, and it becomes…
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Cannot hide status bar in iOS7
I just upgraded my iPhone 5 iOS 7 to four beta version. Now when I run my app from Xcode 5 on this iPhone, status bar doesn’t hide, even though it should.
Not Working:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES…
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Android Completely transparent Status Bar?
I've searched the documentation but only found this:
Link. Which is used to make the bar translucent? What I'm trying to do is to make the status bar completely transparent (as shown in the image below) and make it backwards compatible for…
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How to hide iOS status bar
In my iOS video app status bar is hidden in some view controllers. I have done this using following code.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
It works for iOS 5 and iOS 6 , but not in iOS 7.
I tried with this in particular…
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Changing the Status Bar Color for specific ViewControllers using Swift in iOS8
override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
return UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent;
}
Using the above code in any ViewController to set the statusBar color to White for a specific viewcontroller doesnt work in iOS8 for me. Any…
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Visual Studio Code status bar color
Visual Studio Code's default status bar color is blue, and I find it quite distracting. I used this extension to change the color, but it has stopped working after the 1.10.2 update.
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Change status bar text color to light in iOS 9 with Objective-C
In iOS 9, how do I change the color of the status bar text to white?
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windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize" not working with translucent action/navbar
I have problems with the translucent actionbar/navbar in the new Android KitKat (4.4) and the windowSoftInputMode="adjustResize".
Normaly, changing the InputMode to adjustResize, the app should resize itself when keyboard is shown, but here it…
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Status bar height in Swift
How can I get the status bar's height programmatically in Swift?
In Objective-C, it's like this:
[UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarFrame.size.height.
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Status bar won't disappear
I'm creating an application and I want the status bar hidden. When I test the app, the status bar is hidden whilst the splash screen is shown, but once the app is fully loaded, the status bar reappears.
I'm using Xcode 5 and iOS 7, and have tried…
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iOS 7 - Status bar overlaps the view
I have a ViewController which is inside a UINavigationcontroller, but the navigationBar is hidden. When I run the app on iOS 7, the status bar shows on top of my view. Is there a way to avoid this?
I don't want to write any OS specific code.
I…
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Changing the status bar text color in splash screen iOS 7
I know that are already some stackoverflow questions that say how to change the status bar for all view controllers. I am currently changing the color of status bar this way:
if(IS_IOS7)
[[UIApplication sharedApplication]…
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