If you are using UIViewControllerContainment
there are a few other methods that are worth looking at.
When you want a child viewController to control the presentation of the status bar (i.e. if the child is positioned at the top of the screen
in Swift
class RootViewController: UIViewController {
private let messageBarViewController = MessageBarViewController()
override func childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle() -> UIViewController? {
return messageBarViewController
}
override func viewDidLoad() {
super.viewDidLoad()
//add child vc code here...
setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate()
}
}
class MessageBarViewController: UIViewController {
override func preferredStatusBarStyle() -> UIStatusBarStyle {
return .Default
}
}