Top bar color when keyboard is dismissed during search

Question

I have light top bar colors in my app, because the navigation bar is dark brown:

When I tap search (Keresés here), the following code sets the top bar color to dark content:

- (void)searchDisplayControllerWillBeginSearch:(UISearchDisplayController *)controller
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleDefault];
}

- (void)searchBarTextDidEndEditing:(UISearchBar *)searchBar
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleLightContent];
}

So it looks like this:

But when I type something into the field, then scroll the results list, the keyboard dismisses and the top bar is reverted to white. How can I prevent this?

Answer 1

In iOS 7, the status bar style is, by default, determined by the return value of the UIViewController method -preferredStatusBarStyle. The default implementation of this method returns UIStatusBarStyleDefault.

Setting the info.plist key UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to the value of NO returns to the pre-iOS 7 style of taking the status bar appearance from the shared UIApplication object

To fix this you have two options:

1) Implement the -preferredStatusBarStyle method in all your view controllers that want the status bar style to be non-default

2) Add the key "View controller-based status bar appearance" (UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance) to your info.plist file and set its value to NO