Don't resize navigation bar when hiding status bar

Question

I'm building a application with Swift + AVPlayer and have set "View controller-based status bar appearance" to "YES". The problem with this is that when I launch the player from my UITableViewController/UINavigationController the nav bar hides the status bar automatically and the nav bar is resized.

You can see what I mean here:

http://quick.as/eOXLiv45x

Is there any way to prevent this?

Cheers!

Answer 1

Okay, so this was the solution I used in the end.

1. Set "View controller-based status bar appearance" to "NO"
2. Override the following functions in the media view controller

override func viewDidAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewDidAppear(animated)
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(true, withAnimation: .Fade)
}

override func viewWillDisappear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillDisappear(animated)
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(false, withAnimation: .Fade)
}