How to prevent status bar from overlapping content with hidesBarsOnSwipe set on UINavigationController?

Question

I\'m trying to use the new feature added in iOS 8 - hiding the navigation bar while user is scrolling the table view (similar to what mobile Safari does). I\'m setting the p

Answer 1

Building off of anas' answer, I have a working solution (I'm assuming tableViewController is your UITableViewController instance):

In a UINavigationController subclass (or also potentially from tableViewController):

- (void)viewDidLoad {
    if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(barHideOnSwipeGestureRecognizer)]) {
        // iOS 8+
        self.hidesBarsOnSwipe = YES;
        [self.barHideOnSwipeGestureRecognizer addTarget:self action:@selector(swipe:)];
    }
}

- (void)swipe:(UISwipeGestureRecognizer *)recognizer {
    BOOL shouldHideStatusBar = self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.origin.y < 0;
    tableViewController.hideStatusBar = shouldHideStatusBar;
    [UIView animateWithDuration:0.2 animations:^{
        [tableViewController setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate];
    }];
}

In your tableViewController:

@property(nonatomic, getter = shouldHideStatusBar) BOOL hideStatusBar;

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return [self shouldHideStatusBar];
}

Let me know if this doesn't work for you. A few non-obvious things:

• self.navigationController.navigationBar.frame.origin.y was -44 (the negative height of the navigation bar) when hidden, and 20 (the height of the status bar) when visible. There was no in-between, even during animations, so a negative value == hidden and a nonnegative value == visible.
• The child view controller is the one queried for whether or not the status bar should be hidden. In my case, I have a UIViewController within a UINavigationController within a UITabBarController, and it didn't work until I overrode prefersStatusBarHidden on the UIViewController.
• Since a hidden status bar has no frame, your content might jerk upwards 20 points unless you wrap the call to setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdate in an animation block.
• Hopefully the syntax is correct; I backported this from my Swift code.