iOS 7 status bar issues with UITabBarController

Question

Yes, I have seen many questions about this, but nothing that deals with my specific problem.

I have managed to get the status bar to be a solid black (I'd like blue but I am happy that it is solid an not transparent). I accomplished this by doing

1. in MyApp-Info.plist adding the 'View controller-based status bar appearance' = NO value
2. In the AppDelegate doing if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 7) { [application setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent]; self.window.clipsToBounds =YES; }
3. in my viewDidLoad doing if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(edgesForExtendedLayout)]) { self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone; }

Great.

But behind a UITabBarController it is still transparent. The view controllers inside my tabbarcontroller are subclasses of a the same view controller in the first screen shot. And the same viewDidLoad code is being called.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

After several days of messing around I have a solution:

1) set View controller-based status bar appearance to NO in the MyApp-info.plist (add the key if you need it)

2) Put this in the master and detail view controllers viewDidLoad:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;
self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [your background colour];
self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [color of the text of buttons];

3) This will make the top bar opaque, so, in the storyboard, if you have a uitabbarcontroller you need to set the under opaque bars setting on it.

As a bonus tip: To make the navigation bar match it I do the following in the AppDelegate didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:

[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundImage:[[UIImage alloc]init] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setBackgroundColor:[same color as barTintColor above]];
[[UINavigationBar appearance] setTitleTextAttributes:@{UITextAttributeTextColor:[UIColor whiteColor]}];

I hope this helps someone!