vshabelnyk/statusbarplugin

StatusBar

The StatusBar object provides some functions to customize the iOS StatusBar.

The plugin reads the StatusBarOverlaysWebView (boolean, defaults to true) and StatusBarBackgroundColor (color hex string, defaults to #000000) values from config.xml.

Methods

• StatusBar.overlaysWebView
• StatusBar.styleDefault
• StatusBar.styleLightContent
• StatusBar.backgroundColorByName
• StatusBar.backgroundColorByHexString
• StatusBar.hide
• StatusBar.show

Properties

• StatusBar.isVisible

Permissions

config.xml if building locally

        <feature name="StatusBar">
            <param name="ios-package" value="CDVStatusBar" onload="true" />
        </feature>

config.xml if using PhoneGap Build

        <gap:plugin name="com.phonegap.plugin.statusbar" />

StatusBar.overlaysWebView

On iOS 7, make the statusbar overlay or not overlay the WebView.

StatusBar.overlaysWebView(true);

Description

On iOS 7, set to false to make the statusbar appear like iOS 6. Set the style and background color to suit using the other functions.

Supported Platforms

• iOS

Quick Example

StatusBar.overlaysWebView(true);
StatusBar.overlaysWebView(false);

StatusBar.styleDefault

Use the default statusbar (dark text, for light backgrounds).

StatusBar.styleDefault();

Supported Platforms

• iOS

StatusBar.styleLightContent

Use the lightContent statusbar (light text, for dark backgrounds).

StatusBar.styleLightContent();

Supported Platforms

• iOS

StatusBar.backgroundColorByName

On iOS 7, when you set StatusBar.statusBarOverlaysWebView to false, you can set the background color of the statusbar by color name.

StatusBar.backgroundColorByName("red");

Supported color names are:

black, darkGray, lightGray, white, gray, red, green, blue, cyan, yellow, magenta, orange, purple, brown, clear

Supported Platforms

• iOS

StatusBar.backgroundColorByHexString

On iOS 7, when you set StatusBar.statusBarOverlaysWebView to false, you can set the background color of the statusbar by a hex string (#RRGGBB).

StatusBar.backgroundColorByHexString("#C0C0C0");

Supported Platforms

• iOS

StatusBar.hide

Hide the statusbar.

StatusBar.hide();

Supported Platforms

• iOS

StatusBar.show

Shows the statusbar.

StatusBar.show();

Supported Platforms

• iOS

StatusBar.isVisible

Read this property to see if the statusbar is visible or not.

if (StatusBar.isVisible) {
	// do something
}

Supported Platforms

• iOS