Make iPhone status bar disappear when displaying a modal view?

Question

I want to display a modal view, and want it to cover the iPhone's status bar.

I tried setting the modal view controller's wantsFullScreenLayout property to YES; I also set its parent's property to YES as well. This doesn't work, presumably because the modal view displays below the main window's content, which includes the status bar.

My second approach dropped the whole "wantsFullScreenLayout" technique in favor of hiding the status bar just before the modal view is displayed, then turning it back on after the modal view is dismissed. This works until the very end...the modal view's parent view is laid out incorrectly (its navigation bar is partially hidden behind the status bar.) Calling -[view setNeedsLayout] does nothing.

How should I approach this problem?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You'll be wanting the - (void)setStatusBarHidden:(BOOL)hidden animated:(BOOL)animated on the UIApplication class.

Something like this:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:YES];

That should hide the status bar with a nice fade animation.