NavigationBar bar, tint, and title text color in iOS 8

Question

The background text in the status bar is still black. How do I change the color to white?

// io8, swift, Xcode 6.0.1 
override func viewDidLoad() {
    super         


        

Answer 1

I like Alex's answer. If you want something quick to try out in a ViewController make sure you use

viewWillAppear()
override func viewWillAppear(animated: Bool) {
    super.viewWillAppear(animated)
    var nav = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
    nav?.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
    nav?.tintColor = UIColor.white
    nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orange]
    //nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSAttributedString.Key.foregroundColor: UIColor.orange] // swift 4.2
}