Set the status bar to black colour

Question

I want to set the colour of the status bar (The small strip on top where the clock and battery is displayed) to black background with white text. How can I do

Answer 1

You can make the text white by calling:

UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle(UIStatusBarStyle.LightContent, animated: true)

The status bar has a transparent background. There is no way of changing that. You can pin a view underneath it to act as a background.