How to set the Transparent statusbar in iphone

Question

In my application i want to set the statusbar transparent.There are three styles are possible for changing the style of the statusbar.

1. gray
2. black
3. black translucent

mycode:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent];

How to set the transparent statusbar?

Answer 1

The best solution for this problem is to set self.wantsFullScreenLayout = YES; in your view controller and [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent]; for your status bar.

UPDATE:

As Mihir Oza told in comments the UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent constant from old version of my answer is now deprecated. Use UIStatusBarStyleLightContent instead.

Answer 2

For the global app in the info.plist add Status bar style: Transparent Black Style (alpha 0.5).