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Hide UIStatusBar without removing the space allocated for it

I have picture examples to show you what I want and what I have right now.

First, here is an example of what I'm trying to do, from the Slack app:

The statusbar is normally displayed:

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But when you open the side drawer, it goes away:

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I can display the status bar in my app:

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But when I hide it, it also hides the frame, so there is less space at the top than before:

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It looks wonky to remove space from the top whenever the side drawer opens, but it also looks bad to not hide the status bar since the menu has a different background color. How can I hide the text on the status bar while keeping the space for it still there?

Solution

  • I think you want something like the following (In Swift, Deploy target is 9.0):

    To hide it:

        UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(true, withAnimation: .Fade)
    let appFrame:CGRect = UIScreen.mainScreen().applicationFrame

    UIView.animateWithDuration(0.3, animations: {
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.frame = self.navigationController!.navigationBar.bounds
        self.view.window!.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, appFrame.size.width, appFrame.size.height);
    })

    To show it again:

        let appFrame:CGRect = UIScreen.mainScreen().applicationFrame
    UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarHidden(false, withAnimation: .Fade)

    UIView.animateWithDuration(0.3, animations: {
        self.navigationController?.navigationBar.frame = self.navigationController!.navigationBar.bounds
        self.view.window!.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, appFrame.size.width, appFrame.size.height-0.00001);
    })

    I'm not sure you will run into the same issue as I will, but when I tested the code I originally didn't have that "-0.00001" and the transition was not smooth but that little subtraction fixed it. Not sure why.