Customize the statusBar of your iOS app with any text or UIView

You always asked yourself why you can't change the text in the iOS statusBar for debug reasons? Or custom UIViews? YourStatusBar tweaks the iOS statusBar to add custom text or views. In big projects I often have the problem to find the right UIViewController class. So I wanted to see the current class name in the statusBar. That is actually the reason why I built this library here.

Features

• Set your text to the iOS statusBar
• Add your custom UIView to the statusBar

Usage

Please make sure that you use YourStatusBar only for DEBUG purposes. Not in production mode, because UIStatusBarWindow is private API. You could use YourStatusBar to display the current class like

- (void)viewWillAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    [super viewWillAppear:animated];

    [TWYourStatusBar setCustomText:NSStringFromClass([self class])];
}

Change text

[TWYourStatusBar setCustomText:@"My custom Text"];

Use custom UIView

UIView *myView = [[UIView alloc] init];
[TWYourStatusBar setCustomView:myView];

Example project

Like always this library comes with an example project.

References

• UIStatusBar UIKit's private header
• UIStatusBarWindow UIKit's private header

Thanks

• Piet Brauer thanks for the clean up

Author

• Christian Menschel (@cmenschel)

License

MIT