9 Answers

• in your tiapp.xml change this:

  <statusbar-style>default</statusbar-style>

  to this:

  <statusbar-style>opaque</statusbar-style>

  and you'll get the black statusbar. I can't believe how long it took me to find this. I hope it helps someone else. Appcelerator should really post this somewhere.

• Gentlemen,

  The Only way the Status Bar can set the Color to say: translucent_black is if you set the barColor.

  Example… to have a StatusBar color the same (or translucent) to the barColor:

  // in tiapp.xml
  <statusbar-style>translucent_black</statusbar-style>
  
  // in YourWindow.js
  var self = Ti.UI.createWindow({
          barColor:'#99cc66', // a must
  })
  

• I created a new project and put the line you wrote here as the first line in app.js. With copy/paste.

  
  // this sets the background color of the master UIView (when there are no windows/tab groups on it)
  
  
  Titanium.UI.iPhone.statusBarStyle = Titanium.UI.iPhone.StatusBar.OPAQUE_BLACK;
  
  Titanium.UI.setBackgroundColor('#000');
  
  // create tab group
  

  Compiled with the last 1.4.1 it worked

  Compiled with 1.4.0 it worked

  I use the stock tiapp.xml

  Maybe you make something along.

  Give us some code.

• I know that I use this code on every page of my app:

  win.barImage = '../images/header.jpg';

  However, you can see a glitch - everytime you reload the app then go to a new screen, you can see the default status bar for a split-second, then the custom status bar kicks in. Kinda annoying.

• you just paste these code in app.js and see your app

  Titanium.UI.iPhone.statusBarStyle = Titanium.UI.iPhone.StatusBar.TRANSLUCENT_BLACK;
  

  and its working. your statusbar colour will be black.

• Seriously, can someone at least check in and say whether they are having problems with status bar styling? Why would it work in my app in 1.2 and 1.3 and not in 1.4 when I didn't change any code? I've tried on two different computers with installs of 4.0.1 and 1.4, created new projects, thrown away my app build to force a clean one and still can't get it to work from anywhere but kitchensink using the same exact code cut and pasted.

• Thanks Tamas, I cut and pasted what you wrote (which is what you copy and pasted that I wrote) and it magically worked. Makes no sense. Maybe an invisible character? Maybe all my bugs I need to cut and paste to you!

• I can get the statusbar to opaque_black within my application, but it isn't black at the startscreen.

  I have this line in my app.js on the first line.
  Titanium.UI.iPhone.setStatusBarStyle(Titanium.UI.iPhone.StatusBar.OPAQUE_BLACK);

  and in tiapp.xml I've changed from default to opaque_black here:
  <statusbar-style>opaque_black</statusbar-style>

  But it's still default/gray when the application is starting/loading and then it changes to black.

  Is it possible to fix this somehow?

• I had the same problem- used <statusbar-style>opaque_black</statusbar-style> in tiapp.xml - no changed.

  It is simple to fix:
  Just remove the build folder and force it to recompile the project completely. Worked fine for me.