Xamarin.Forms iOS statusbar color with NavigationPage

Question

I am building an application in Xamarin.Forms, on the iOS app I want the status bar color to be white. Here is what I have so far:

App.cs

public App()
{
    NavigationPage _navigationPage = new NavigationPage(new RootPage());

    MainPage = _navigationPage;
}

Answer 1

After a recent Xamarin update you are now able to do this by setting the BarTextColorProperty,

_navigationPage.SetValue(NavigationPage.BarTextColorProperty, Color.White);

However just like in pvnak's answer you still need to add the following to your Info.plist

• Property: UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance
• Type: boolean
• Value: No