ios7 - UIImagePickerController breaks status bar appearance

Question

In my .plist file, I have "View controller-based status bar appearance" set to NO. But after UIImagePickerController, my app behaves as if the option is set to YES.

In my app, I present a VC that presents a UIImagePickerController.

The problem happens like this:

• After photo picker is presented, when a photo library is picked, the color of the status bar text changes.
• Then once, UIImagePickerController is dismissed, status bar spacing changes for the rest of my app and all the navigation bar for other controllers displays under the status bar.

Is there a way to solve this without managing status bar in my view controllers?

Answer 1

None of the solutions above worked for me, but by combining Rich86man's and iOS_DEV_09's answers I've got a consistently working solution:

UIImagePickerController* imagePicker = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
imagePicker.delegate = self;

and

- (void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController animated:(BOOL)animated
{
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
}

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Regarding this awesome solution. For 2014 / iOS8 I found in some cases you need to ALSO include prefersStatusBarHidden and, possibly, childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden So...

-(void)navigationController:(UINavigationController *)navigationController
        willShowViewController:(UIViewController *)viewController
        animated:(BOOL)animated
    {
    [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES];
    }

-(BOOL)prefersStatusBarHidden   // iOS8 definitely needs this one. checked.
    {
    return YES;
    }

-(UIViewController *)childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden
    {
    return nil;
    }

-(void)showCamera
    {
    self.cameraController = [[UIImagePickerController alloc] init];
    self.cameraController.delegate = (id)self; // dpjanes solution!
    etc...