Phonegap status bar overlaps after inapppbrowser or camera closed

Question

I am using the cordova status bar plugin, it works great until I open an inappbrowser or open a camera, after that it overlaps the app.

I have tried following methods:-

<preference name="fullscreen" value="false" />

 Add 20px margin, but that only works when the above scenario is encountered, else it shows blank 20px space (Used with cordova plugin)

Answer 1

Try doing the following to restore the hidden overlap:

StatusBar.overlaysWebView(true);
StatusBar.overlaysWebView(false);

Answer 2

i have solved this using this code after camera is closed.

    $cordovaStatusbar.overlaysWebView(true);
    $cordovaStatusbar.overlaysWebView(false);

Btw, i'm using ngCordova.

Answer 3

EDIT:

This was fixed in the StatusBar plugin

Currently the NPM registry has only the version 2.4.3 of the cordova-plugin-statusbar. The fixed landed in the Master branch

So basically for ionic people this would mean you need to add it like this (maybe remove it before):

ionic cordova plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-statusbar#master

This installs the master branch from github as plugin for you.

Then run something like this to get it into your Xcode project:

ionic cordova build ios --no-build --prod

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Original Post

While calling in JavaScript the method overlaysWebView with true and false works, I assume the proper way would be to call the setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate method natively when the view disappears.

CDVCamera.m https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-camera/blob/master/src/ios/CDVCamera.m#L751

- (void)viewWillDisappear:(BOOL)animated
{
    [super viewWillDisappear:animated];

    [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
}

Right now only viewWillAppear is implemented.

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BTW: Maybe someone knows why the hiding transition of the statur bar works with following code (in the viewWillAppear method):

SEL sel = NSSelectorFromString(@"setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate");
if ([self respondsToSelector:sel]) {
    [self performSelector:sel withObject:nil afterDelay:0];
}

but not with the following:

[self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];

And in the viewWillDisappear it works only if the afterDelay is left out with the performSelector or the [self setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate]; is called.