Solid StatusBar in whole Application - ios

Question

I want to make status bar look solid black like Facebook(Blue) and should remain the same solid when navigation bar hides on scroll. I need to do it programmatically in swift.
I don't want to add a UIView on the top.
Can it be done with AppDelegate?
I am not using navigation controller i am using Xibs.

Answer 1

Yes you can easily create a UIView class and add it to app delegate like this:
//In statusBar.h
#interface statusBar : UIView{
}
//In statusBar.m
#implementation statusBar
- (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame
{
self = [super initWithFrame:frame];
if (self)
{
self.backgroundColor = [[UIColor blackColor] colorWithAlphaComponent:0.7];
UIButton *navigationButton = [[UIButton alloc] initWitFrame:CGRectMake(10,10,25,25)];
[self addSubView:navigationButton];
}
return self;
}
Now you can create its frame in app delegate like this:
//in appDelegate.m
- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions {
statusBar *sb = [[statusBar alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0,0, self.window.bounds.size.width, 50)];
[self.window addSubview:sb];
}
Now keep your frame of every view controller below the statusBar:
//In ViewDidLoad method:
self.view.frame = CGRectMake(0, 50, self.view.frame.size.width, self.view.frame.size.height); //50 is the height of status bar
Hope it will help.