Status bar and navigation bar appear over my view's bounds in iOS 7

Question

I recently downloaded Xcode 5 DP to test my apps in iOS 7. The first thing I noticed and confirmed is that my view\'s bounds is not always resized to account for the status

Answer 1

I have a scenario where I use the BannerViewController written by Apple to display my ads and a ScrollViewController embedded in the BannerViewController.

To prevent the navigation bar from hiding my content, I had to make two changes.

1) Modify BannerViewController.m

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
   [super viewDidLoad];
   float systemVersion = [[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue];
   if (systemVersion >= 7.0) {
      self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;
   }
}

2) Modify my ScrollViewContoller

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    float systemVersion = [[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue];
    if (systemVersion >= 7.0) {
        self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeBottom;
    }
}

Now the ads show up correctly at the bottom of the view instead of being covered by the Navigation bar and the content on the top is not cut off.

Answer 2

In your apps plist file add a row, call it "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set it to NO.

Answer 3

I created my view programmatically and this ended up working for me:

- (void) viewDidLayoutSubviews {
    // only works for iOS 7+
    if ([[[UIDevice currentDevice] systemVersion] floatValue] >= 7.0) {
        CGRect viewBounds = self.view.bounds;
        CGFloat topBarOffset = self.topLayoutGuide.length;

        // snaps the view under the status bar (iOS 6 style)
        viewBounds.origin.y = topBarOffset * -1;

        // shrink the bounds of your view to compensate for the offset
        viewBounds.size.height = viewBounds.size.height + (topBarOffset * -1);
        self.view.bounds = viewBounds;
    }
}

Source (in topLayoutGuide section at bottom of pg.39).

Answer 4

edgesForExtendedLayout does the trick for iOS 7. However, if you build the app across iOS 7 SDK and deploy it in iOS 6, the navigation bar appears translucent and the views go beneath it. So, to fix it for both iOS 7 as well as for iOS 6 do this:

self.navigationController.navigationBar.barStyle = UIBarStyleBlackOpaque;
if ([self respondsToSelector:@selector(edgesForExtendedLayout)])
    self.edgesForExtendedLayout = UIRectEdgeNone;   // iOS 7 specific

Answer 5

Add the key "View Controller-based status bar appearance" from the dropdownlist as a row in info.plist. Something like this:

Answer 6

To me, the simplest solution is to add two keys into the plist