iOS 9 UIImagePickerController statusBar white

Question

The target screenshot want

First,I have read those link

• UIImagePickerController breaks status bar appearance
• How to hide status bar in UIImagepickercontroller?
• How to make UIImagePickerController StatusBar lightContent style?

All of the links use those API of UIApplication

- setStatusBarStyle:animated:
- setStatusBarHidden:withAnimation:

But,those API are deprecated in iOS 9.

So,how to get lightContent statusBar in iOS 9?

Answer 1

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1. Set View controller-based status bar appearance to YES,or just delete this key in info.plist

2. Make a subclass of UIImagePickerController

   @interface BaseImagePickerController : UIImagePickerController
   
   @end
   
   
   @implementation BaseImagePickerController
   -(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle{
       return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent; 
   }
   @end
   

3. Use this subclass

   self.imagePikerViewController = [[BaseImagePickerController alloc] init];
   

Answer 2

Here is how to do that in Swift:

class BaseImagePickerController {
    func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
        return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent
    }
}

To initialize it:

self.imagePikerViewController = BaseImagePickerController()

It seems that statusBarStyle was deprecated, but UIStatusBarStyle was not.

You can also change the color for just one view controller this way:

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

Or in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions in the AppDelegate file you can change it in the whole app with this:

UIApplication.sharedApplication().statusBarStyle = .LightContent

Answer 3

Instead of subclassing UIImagePickerController you could use an extension on UINavigationController which UIImagePickerController is a subclass of and override preferredStatusBarStyle(). This gets rid of all issues in this context.

extension UINavigationController{

override public func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {

    return .LightContent
}

}