iOS 7 and later: set status bar style per view controller

Question

I tried many ways to set the status bar style (default or lightcontent) but can\'t get it to work on a per view controller basis. I can set the status bar style for the

Answer 1

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With UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance set to NO, I was able to set the style to white text by using:

[UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent;

This is because the text color on this style was white on iOS 6 and below.

UPDATE: According to @jowie you can try that on iOS8:

[UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarStyle = UIBarStyleBlack;