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

in Swift 4.2

var nav = self.navigationController?.navigationBar
nav?.barStyle = UIBarStyle.Black
nav?.tintColor = UIColor.white
nav?.titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.orange]