iOS Custom Status Bar Background Color not displaying

Question

I am trying to fill the status bar background color to orange using the following

UINavigationBar.appearance().tintColor = UIColor.orangeColor()
UINavigation         


        

Answer 1

Edit for Swift 3:

With UITabBarController

let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor = .orange
self.view.addSubview(view)

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Without embedded controllers

I realize some people come here not only for the status bar, but actually the navigation bar, so I learned a few tricks along the way to do it without any embedded controllers:

Add this method in your AppDelegate.swift and call it in the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions

func customizeAppearance() {
    UINavigationBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black
    UINavigationBar.appearance().titleTextAttributes = [NSForegroundColorAttributeName: UIColor.white]
    UITabBar.appearance().barTintColor = UIColor.black
    let tintColor = UIColor(red: 255/255.0, green: 255/255.0, blue: 255/255.0, alpha: 1.0)

    UITabBar.appearance().tintColor = tintColor
}

Thanks to @Utsav I added the following subview to my UITabBarController and this seems to be working now:

    let view = UIView(frame:
                    CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.mainScreen().bounds.size.width, height: 20.0)
                )
    view.backgroundColor = UIColor.orangeColor()

    self.view.addSubview(view)

The UITabBarController doesn't seem to play well in AppDelegate. If anyone has a better way let me know but, as of now this is the solution I have come around to.