How to: Change Color/Style of the iPhone Status Bar

[seanhelmes]

Hi All,

I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a step by step explanation of how to change the status bar's color in my iPhone application to BlackOpaque. Any help would be much appreciated!

[CaptainRedmuff]

Hi seanhelmes,

To change the style of your status bar to BlackOpaque you need to add the following line into your applicationDidFinishLaunching method:

[application setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque];

Hope that helps

[seanhelmes]

in what file of my Xcode project will I find the applicationDidFinishLaunching method: ? Thanks for the help!

[seanhelmes]

I figured it out....It goes in the AppDelegate.m file within the xcode project. Thanks for all of your help!

[CaptainRedmuff]

No problem seanhelmes,

Good luck with your app

[rptally]

Add a key value pair to the project Info.plist

Key = UIStatusBarStyle
Value = UIStatusBarStyleOpaqueBlack

If you make the change in the AppDelegate, you get a momentary grey bar that becomes black. This way it starts out black and no flicker.

Enjoy!

[Murd]

I have got one problem with this:

I want to change the style in a IBAction, but there "application" is unknown. How can I get the statusbar change outside of the applicationDidFinishLaunching?

[jsd]

Originally Posted by Murd

I have got one problem with this:

I want to change the style in a IBAction, but there "application" is unknown. How can I get the statusbar change outside of the applicationDidFinishLaunching?

In your IBAction method do:

UIApplication *application = [UIApplication sharedApplication];

Then you can refer to application just as you did in the didFinishLaunching method.

[Steaps]

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