How to make the status bar translucent in iOS 7?

Question

In my app, I have some webviews. A transparent status bar doesn't look good for full screen webview. I want to make the status bar TRANSLUCENT, just like the game center.

I notice that the status bar would be drawn translucent if there is a navigation bar under it. But I want a translucent status bar BY ITSELF.

Is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

As the status bar is totally transparent and any content can go on top of it, I just create an empty UIToolbar that is 20px height which just looks like a perfect translucent background for the status bar. This is not an ultimate solution, but it really helps and it is very easy to implement when you don't need a real tool bar. Thanks to Apple that they do not provide an option to set the status bar from transparent to translucent.