Fullscreen UIView with Status bar and Navigation Bar overlay on the top

Question

What is the proper way to implement the status bar and navigation bar that go on top of an UIView?

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Answer 1

Just set “wants fullscreen layout” in your view controller. That solves the problem for me.

self.wantsFullScreenLayout = YES;

Answer 2

In the screenshot above, there's a translucent status bar and a translucent navigation bar.

The status bar is set using

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent];

The navigation bar is set using

theNavigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackTranslucent;

Answer 3

If you have a view controller inside a navigation controller, and you want to hide the status bar in order to have your viewController's view in full screen, you can always call :

[self.navigationController.view setNeedsLayout];

after hiding the status bar. But I personally think

[self setWantsFullScreenLayout:YES];

is a better way.