iOS 7: modal view controller status bar is wrong color but normal view controllers are correct

Question

I have an issue in iOS7 where a normal UINavigationController pushed view controller has the correct status bar text color for the UINavigationController navbar color (which is

Answer 1

You can redefine the preferredStatusBarStyle method in your navigation controller class

- (UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle
{
    return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
// or UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque, UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent, or UIStatusBarStyleDefault

}

and you can also define a "view did load method" to set custom colors you want

- (void) viewDidLoad
{
    UIColor *barColor = [UIColor whitecolor];

    UIView *colorView = [[UIView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0.f, -20.f, 320.f, 64.f)];
    colorView.opaque = NO;
    colorView.alpha = .5f;
    colorView.backgroundColor = barColor;

    self.navigationBar.barTintColor = barColor;
    self.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
    [self.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName:[UIColor whiteColor]}];

    /*self.navigationController.navigationBar.barTintColor = [UIColor blackColor];
     self.navigationController.navigationBar.tintColor = [UIColor whiteColor];
     [self.navigationController.navigationBar setTitleTextAttributes:@{NSForegroundColorAttributeName : [UIColor whiteColor]}];
     self.navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;*/

    [self.navigationBar.layer insertSublayer:colorView.layer atIndex:0];

}