Delphi XE7: How to get native statusbar behavior in iOS 7?

Question

In iOS 7 the default behavior of the statusbar is to be transparent, but that seems impossible in Delphi XE7. The statusbar always get the same color as the mainform (which was the default behavior in iOS 6). The Mainform.borderstyle controls if the statusbar is shown or not, but I cannot find any way to set it transparent. I have tried setting UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance and UIStatusBarStyle in the info.plist and tried to call

TUIApplication.wrap(TUIApplication.OCClass.sharedApplication).setStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent)

but it remains solid.

Did anyone succeed in making it transparent? - or is this a bug (or missing feature) in XE7?

Answer 1

I believe you need to to set the UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to false in your plist before you can change the Status bars appearance:

<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>