I am trying to fill the status bar background color to orange using the following
UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.orangeColor()
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.orangeColor()
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.whiteColor()]
UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent, animated: true)
However, I get a white status bar that should be filled with orange instead from following this example: Customize navigation bar appearance with swift
I am setting this up in the AppDelegate.swift file under didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method to apply it to the entire app.
I have edited my info.plist to the following: View controller-based status bar appearance => NO
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?
Edit: I'm not sure if it matters but the view is in a UITabBarController
Edit 2: This is happening in all the views actually, not just the UITabBarController.
Edit 3: Thanks @Utsav Parikh
I am adding a view now on top of the status bar and it for a brief moment while the app loads the status bar is orange but, once it finishes loading it gets pushed OFF the view and replaced with the generic white status bar. Why would this be happening?
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor=UIColor.orangeColor()
self.window!.rootViewController!.view.addSubview(view)
Edit for Swift 3:
with UITabBarController
let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor = .orange
self.view.addSubview(view)
Without embedded controllers
I realize some people come here not only for the status bar, but actually the navigation bar, so I learned a few tricks along the way to do it without any embedded controllers:
Add this method in your AppDelegate.swift and call it in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
func customizeAppearance() {
UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black
UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black
let tintColor = UIColor(red: 255/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 255/255.0, alpha: 1.0)
UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = tintColor
}
Edit for Swift 3:
With UITabBarController
Without embedded controllers
I realize some people come here not only for the status bar, but actually the navigation bar, so I learned a few tricks along the way to do it without any embedded controllers:
Add this method in your AppDelegate.swift and call it in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions
Thanks to @Utsav I added the following subview to my UITabBarController and this seems to be working now:
The UITabBarController doesn't seem to play well in AppDelegate. If anyone has a better way let me know but, as of now this is the solution I have come around to.
After what u did in
info.plist
to the following:View controller-based status bar appearance
=> NO.Add this code in
AppDelegate.swift
file underdidFinishLaunchingWithOptions
:and u can select any hex code for ur choice of color..!! Enjoy..!!
Sorry, forgot to use hexcode you will be needing this also so add this code anywhere in your
AppDelegate.swift
:Add this code in didFinishLaunchingWithOptions in AppDelegate
Hope it helps you....!!!
This is how I did it without adding a view in a VC with in a NavBarController
I wanted the color of the status bar to be the same as the VC view color so I just wrote:
Try it.
There is a main difference in
tintColor
and changing the background color ofUINavigationBar
. The best way in my opinion is apply a background image, made by 1 pixel square image of just one color.Like that:
Or you can create a category on
UIColor
to return aUIImage
given aUIColor
instance, in objC:UINavigationBar.appereance()
works for upcoming viewControllers, but not the currently displayed rootViewController. To achieve this I have added the following to mydidFinishLaunchingWithOptions
: