Remove iOS 7 Status Bar

Question

I am developing a game for iOS using Monotouch and MonoGame, and I need to make the game full screen, without the status bar. In iOS 6 this was not a problem, but in iOS 7 I cannot figure out how to disable the status bar. I have found results on how to do this in Objective-C, but cannot find out how to do it in MonoTouch.

This post says that this is not possible, but the Netflix iOS 7 app has full screen with no status bar (while playing a video).

Answer 1

Add this to your info.plist before the dict tag

<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
<true/>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>

example:

.....
    <key>UISupportedInterfaceOrientations</key>
    <array>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationPortrait</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeLeft</string>
        <string>UIInterfaceOrientationLandscapeRight</string>
    </array>
    <key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
    <true/>
    <key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
    <false/>
</dict>