StatusBarStyle not working as expected on iOS 9

Question

I am trying to get the following StatusBarStyle on my swift app :

My AppDelegate uses a UINavigationController as follows

self.nav = UINavigationController(rootViewController: controller!)

So I tried to set the UIBarStyle to Black as follows :

    self.nav?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black

However, this results in the following :

BTW, on my Info.plist, I have the following set

<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleDefault</string>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

And those settings result in the desired statusbar style on the LaunchScreen but not on the other screens.

I even tried adding the following method to all the VCs inside the UINavigationController

override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
    return UIStatusBarStyle.Default
}

But that results in the following status bar style :

What is the best way to have the desired status bar style in the case where you have a UINavigationController on iOS 9?

Additionally, if I remove the plist entry and set

 self.nav?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black

in AppDelegate, I get the following result :

Additionally, I removed all the places where backgroundColor was being set except the following in AppDelegate (colorOne is the deepBlue color I want on the status bar)

self.window?.backgroundColor = colorOne

And when I did this, I get a light blue color on the status bar, which is the closest color to the deep blue color I need on the status bar as seen here

Check this question : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32730211/how-we-can-set-the-light-content-style-of-status-bar-in-ios-9-for-whole-applicat and answer. You have to remove the plist entry. — Ashish Kakkad, Oct 03 '15 at 05:14
Thanks for the suggestion. When I remove the plist entry and set self.nav?.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black in AppDelegate, I get the following result : http://i.stack.imgur.com/tEcOm.png — Arunabh Das, Oct 03 '15 at 05:25
I do have VCs in storyboards but I am not setting any properties on them in the IB. All the properties are getting set programmatically. — Arunabh Das, Oct 03 '15 at 06:35
Setting the appearance property (that way it affects everything) is the easier way to go about this. — BonanzaDriver, Oct 04 '15 at 03:12

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 03 '15 at 07:42

4

In appDelegate use:

  UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.redColor()
  UINavigationBar.appearance().translucent = false

Obviously you can use any UIColor you want...

answered Oct 03 '15 at 07:42

Dimitrios Kalaitzidis

181
2
9

Wow!! Thanks!! That was a lifesaver!! – Arunabh Das Oct 03 '15 at 08:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 03 '15 at 12:57

i hope this may help you..

if you need a specific color, how you do it with RGB is the best option:

  UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor(red: 5.0, green: 8.0, blue: 9.0, alpha:0.5)

if its not working then try this: var navigationBarAppearace = UINavigationBar.appearance()

    navigationBarAppearace.tintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()
    navigationBarAppearace.barTintColor = UIColor(red:15/255.0, green:  167/255.0, blue: 216/255.0, alpha: 1.0)

StatusBarStyle not working as expected on iOS 9

2 Answers2