Setting UIStatusBarStyle in childViewController

Question

I have a UIViewController with a childViewController.

The childViewController either takes up the entire screen or parts of the screens, overlaying on top of the parentViewController.

When it takes up the entire screen I would like to change the UIStatusBarStyle.

In my plist, I have added View controller-based status bar appearance and set it to NO.

In the childViewController I have the following:

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
    if (self.isFullScreen) {
        return UIStatusBarStyleDefault;
    } else {
        return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
    }
}

-(UIStatusBarAnimation)preferredStatusBarUpdateAnimation {
    return UIStatusBarAnimationFade;
}

When making the transition from half and fullscreen I call:

[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];

But my UIStatusBar does not change appearance from light to dark.

A regular call to:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent animated:YES];

works fine, however but I would like to take advantage of the fact that I can match the animation duration for the change inside an animation block.

Thank you.

You should set View controller-based status bar appearance to YES for changing for using -(UIStatusBarAnimation)preferredStatusBarUpdateAnimation method. — Boran, Oct 03 '13 at 19:25
@BoranA Ah! That helped... Also needed to set the `childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle`. Add answer so I can accept? — runmad, Oct 03 '13 at 19:45

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 04 '13 at 06:32

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You should set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to YES in the plist for using -(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle method.

answered Oct 04 '13 at 06:32

Boran

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Thanks. Just adding to the comment that I also had to set `(UIViewController*)childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle` for the `parentViewController` – runmad Oct 04 '13 at 13:41

Setting UIStatusBarStyle in childViewController

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