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()
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Answer 1

There is a main difference in tintColor and changing the background color of UINavigationBar. The best way in my opinion is apply a background image, made by 1 pixel square image of just one color.
Like that:

let tabbarAndNavBarBkg = UIImage(named: "nav_tab")
UINavigationBar.appearance().setBackgroundImage(tabbarAndNavBarBkg, forBarMetrics: .Default) 

Or you can create a category on UIColor to return a UIImage given a UIColor instance, in objC:

+ (UIImage *) imageWithColor:(UIColor*) color {
    CGRect rect = CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1);
    UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(rect.size);
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(context, color.CGColor);
    CGContextFillRect(context, rect);
    UIImage *colorImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
    return colorImage;
}