Why is the Status Bar STILL showing during Default.png?

Question

I'm pretty sure that I've taken all steps to correctly set my status bar to hidden. I did this in both the info.plist file (setting a UIStatusBarHidden to a boolean TRUE) as well as in the applicationDidFinishLaunching method in the Application Delegate using:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];

And the status bar does hide -- only not quick enough. Despite the steps taken above, when the app is launched, the status bar is STILL being displayed for about a second during the displaying of the Default.png default image. This looks tacky, and I want to make sure the status bar does not get displayed at any time during the running of the app.

Many apps I've tried ARE hiding the status bar successfully (doesn't even show during the display of default.png) but I can't figure out how. Anyone deal with this issue before?

Answer 1

I don't think it is possible. Default.png is shown while your app is loading. The code to hide the status bar doesn't actually get executed until your app is loaded and Default.png is replaced by your UI.

A compromise is to animate hiding of the status bar which would be a nicer and not as "tacky".

Answer 2

UIStatusBarHidden should be set to true.

Answer 3

Did you figure this out already? What I did to get it to work is edit the Info.plist file in TextMate rather than in Xcode. I added the following two lines:

<key>UIStatusBarHidden</key>
<true/>

I think the only thing different from the answers given above is that I used a text editor rather than Xcode. When you subsequently look at Info.plist in Xcode, you will see a check mark next to UIStatusBarHidden rather than a string. There is probably a way to do this directly in Xcode, but I don't know what it is.

Answer 4

Hi,

I have seen this on Jailbroken devices using IOS 2.1 with an older version of Cydia. In that instance, once Cydia was updated, the info.plist + ...statusBarHidden = YES method worked.

Alternatively see if [application setStatusBarStyle: ...] helps.

-isdi-