Disappearing status bar at the top after MPMoviePlayerController is closed

Question

Having an interesting little problem with my iPhone app. I have a view with a table and each cell, when clicked, plays a video fullscreen then when you press done, the video sto

Answer 1

Maybe the animation from when the video view disappears is causing a timing issue with the status bar animation.

try delaying the statusBarHidden = NO call by a few seconds.

NSInteger delay = 3;

dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, delay * NSEC_PER_SEC), dispatch_get_current_queue(), ^{
[UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarHidden = NO;
});

Answer 2

I've found that with the given solutions the content often disappears beneath the status bar. This approach fixes it.

Register for MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification

        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self
                                             selector:@selector(moviePlayerWillExitFullscreen:)
                                                 name:MPMoviePlayerWillExitFullscreenNotification
                                               object:self.moviePlayer];

And then reset the status bar visibility AND remove and re-add the rootViewController from the main window, this will make sure that the bounds of the view are correct again.

- (void)moviePlayerWillExitFullscreen:(NSNotification *)notification {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:NO withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationSlide];
    AppDelegate *appDelegate = [UIApplication sharedApplication].delegate;

    id rootViewController = appDelegate.window.rootViewController;
    appDelegate.window.rootViewController = nil;
    appDelegate.window.rootViewController = rootViewController;
}

Answer 3

You can just set the delay to be a float instead. So it would be

float delay = 0.1;

    dispatch_after(dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, delay * NSEC_PER_SEC), dispatch_get_current_queue(), ^{
        [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarHidden = NO;
        [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarStyle = UIStatusBarStyleBlackOpaque;
    });

I had the same problem and solved it by modifying richerd's code a bit. 0.1 second is acceptable imo. I also had to change the status bar style since it returned a BlackTranslucent bar style and the original was BlackOpaque style. But works fine now.