Is there a way to prevent UIImagePickerController change statusbar style?

Question

UIImagePickerController changes statusbar style to black/opaque. I want to keep status-bar style black/translucent. I'm finding a way to prevent status bar style changing. Or making it transited smoothly. Now, presenting UIImagePickerController changes status-bar style instantly, even -[presentModalViewController:picker animated:YES] specified.

Any method, welcome, including hacking or private method. This is an app for AppStore, however I want to even try.

Answer 1

If you want to completely disable changing the status bar style, you could add a UIApplication category that blocks it.

@implementation UIApplication (MyCategory)
- (void)setStatusBarStyle:(UIStatusBarStyle)statusBarStyle {}
@end

If that works, but you want to selectively disable changes, try subclassing UIApplication so you can call super when you want to pass the change through.