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

Swift 3:

In your AppDelegate.swift file paste the code bellow into your didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method:

let view = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0.0, y: 0.0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 20.0))
view.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 255/255, green: 130/255, blue: 0/255, alpha: 1.0) // Organge colour in RGB
self.window?.rootViewController?.view.addSubview(view)

This works fine for me!