How to make UIImagePickerController StatusBar lightContent style? - ios

Question

When I present the ImagePickerController the statusBar text color is still black, how to make like this?

Answer 1

Just three steps:
1: Add UINavigationControllerDelegate,UIImagePickerControllerDelegate to your
#interface yourController ()<>
2: imagePickerController.delegate = self;
3:
-(void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
}

Answer 2

Swift solution by writing an extension for UIImagePickerController:
extension UIImagePickerController {
convenience init(navigationBarStyle: UIBarStyle) {
self.init()
self.navigationBar.barStyle = navigationBarStyle
}
}
Then you can set the color when initializing it:
let picker = UIImagePickerController(navigationBarStyle: .black) // black bar -> white text
Alternative (inspired by folse's answer): When you initialize the UIImagePickerController normally, make this class the delegate (picker.delegate = self) and implement this function:
func navigationController(_ navigationController: UINavigationController, didShow viewController: UIViewController, animated: Bool) {
if navigationController is UIImagePickerController { // check just to be safe
navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = .black // black bar -> white text
}
}

Answer 3

In Swift and iOS 9, setStatusBarStyle is deprecated. You could subclass the controller.
private final class LightStatusImagePickerController: UIImagePickerController {
override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
return .lightContent
}
}

Answer 4

I had the same problem having to manage the application runned under different iOS versions.
UIImagePickerController *imagePickerController = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
if(IS_IOS8_AND_UP) {
imagePickerController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
} else {
imagePickerController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationCurrentContext;
}
imagePickerController.delegate = self;
[self presentViewController:imagePickerController animated:YES completion:nil];
The, in delegate:
- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated {
/* Cancel button color */
_imagePicker.navigationBar.tintColor = <custom_color>
/* Status bar color */
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
}

Answer 5

Using the answers above the following worked for me:
Implement
UINavigationControllerDelegate, UIImagePickerControllerDelegate to your UIViewController
and set
imagePickerController.delegate = self;
Add the following method:
-(void) navigationController: (UINavigationController *) navigationController willShowViewController: (UIViewController *) viewController animated: (BOOL) animated {
navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;
}

Answer 6

I was facing a similar problem and I found the cleanest way to solve it was to override preferredStatusBarStyle in an extension of UIImagePickerController like so. This principal can be applied to third party libraries nicely.
extension UIImagePickerController {
open override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
if isLightTheme() {
return .default // black text
}
return .lightContent // white text
}
}
isLightTheme() is simply a function to determine whether the NavigationBar in that controller is a light or dark colour.

Answer 7

This is the quickest solution I could think of. Create the following category:
#implementation UIImagePickerController (LightStatusBar)
- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}
#end