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

I bet you have your view controller embedded into a navigation controller. To avoid setting the navigation bar's style to .Black use this subclass:

class YourNavigationController: UINavigationController {
    override func childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle() -> UIViewController? {
        return topViewController
    }
}