UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle() deprecated in iOS 9

Question

I have been using

UIApplication.sharedApplication().setStatusBarStyle()

In my appDelegate and it has worked fine, but since iOS 9, this method

Answer 1

In info.plist, set: View controller-based status bar appearance boolean to NO

In app delegate's didFinishLaunchingWithOptions, use function parameter application (and not the [UIApplication sharedApplication] or simillary the UIApplication.sharedApplication() in swift) to set this like so:

- (BOOL)application:(UIApplication *)application didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:(NSDictionary *)launchOptions
{
    application.statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyleLightContent;
}