The correct way to set a light status bar text color in iOS 7 based on different ViewControllers

Question

I need to let a specific ViewController embedded in an UINavigationController to have light status bar text color (but other ViewControllers to beh

Answer 1

To set UIStatusBarStyle individually for each UIViewController on UINavigationController stack you have to first subclass your UINavigationController and override childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle method.

In your UINavigationController subclass add:

-(UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle {
     return self.visibleViewController;
}

than you can set UIStatusBarStyle to whatever you want in every UIViewController using preferredStatusBarStyle method. Eg:

-(UIStatusBarStyle)preferredStatusBarStyle {
     return UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}