How to hide the status bar programmatically in iOS 7?

Question

In ios7, how can I hide the statusbar programmatically? I am using XCode 4.6.1 (ios6.1) and I want to implement this in XCode itself.

Answer 1

In case of iOS >= 7.0 use following code :

Syntax:

// Present in UIViewController of UIKit Frameworks
- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(7_0); // Defaults to NO

Usage:

- (BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden {
    return YES;
}

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In iOS < 7.0 use following code :

Syntax:

// Present in UIApplication of UIKit Frameworks
- (void)setStatusBarHidden:(BOOL)hidden withAnimation:(UIStatusBarAnimation)animation NS_AVAILABLE_IOS(3_2);

Usage:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];