Enable the status bar in the Windows Phone javascript templates for Visual Studio 2013

Question

Does anyone know how to enable the status bar (picture) in a javascript Windows Phone 8.1 application? I am using the javascript Pivot Template in Visual Studio 2013 with Update 2.

Answer 1

You'll have to add some JavaScript to the ready function of a page for example.

First get the statusbar for the current view. Than decide what to do with it:

var s = Windows.UI.ViewManagement.StatusBar.getForCurrentView();
s.showAsync(); // shows the statusbar

More about the statusbar can be found at the MSDN.