Change Status Bar Background Color in Swift 3

Question

In XCode 7.3.x ill changed the background Color for my StatusBar with:

func setStatusBarBackgroundColor(color: UIColor) {
guard  let statusBar = UIApplicatio         


        

Answer 1

I made this extension to change color of status bar. It's not dependent on the key. So it is much safer to use

public extension UIViewController {
    func setStatusBar(color: UIColor) {
        let tag = 12321
        if let taggedView = self.view.viewWithTag(tag){
            taggedView.removeFromSuperview()
        }
        let overView = UIView()
        overView.frame = UIApplication.shared.statusBarFrame
        overView.backgroundColor = color
        overView.tag = tag
        self.view.addSubview(overView)
    }
}

Here is usage anywhere in viewcontroller:

setStatusBar(color: .red)

Answer 2

Add following code in your extension file to edit your status bar in swift 4 and Above:

extension UIApplication {
    var statusBarView: UIView? {
        if responds(to: Selector(("statusBar"))) {
            return value(forKey: "statusBar") as? UIView
        }
        return nil
    }
}

now, we can edit status bar by adding following line in our ViewController class:

UIApplication.shared.statusBarView?.backgroundColor = <Your Color name>

ex: UIApplication.shared.statusBarView?.backgroundColor = .red

Hope, this will be helpful. Thanks