iOS status bar overlapping contents

Question

I have built phonegap application, it works fine on android and windows. But for iOS I am facing issue as, status bar contents and page contents are mixed up therefore i unable to tap on the back button provided in header. Can any body help me about this..?

This is my config.xml file

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<widget xmlns   = "http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets"
        xmlns:gap   = "http://phonegap.com/ns/1.0"

        id        = "io.example.com"
        version     = "1.0.2">
    <name>MyAPP</name>

    <description>

    </description>

    <author  email="rakesh@gmail.com">
        Rakesh
    </author>

    <access origin="*"/>


    <content src="index.html" />


    <preference name="target-device" value="universal" />   <!-- all: possible values handset, tablet, or universal -->
    <!-- <preference name="fullscreen" value="true" />  -->          <!-- all: hides the status bar at the top of the screen -->
    <preference name="webviewbounce" value="false" />        <!-- ios: control whether the screen 'bounces' when scrolled beyond the top -->
    <preference name="ios-statusbarstyle" value="black-opaque" />   <!-- ios: black-translucent will appear black because the PhoneGap webview doesn't go beneath the status bar -->
    <preference name="auto-hide-splash-screen"    value="true" />           <!-- ios: if set to false, the splash screen must be hidden using a JavaScript API -->
    <preference name="android-minSdkVersion"      value="7" />              <!-- android: MIN SDK version supported on the target device. MAX version is blank by default. -->
    <preference name="phonegap-version" value="3.7.0" />
    <icon src="icon.png" />

    <icon src="icon-57.png"            gap:platform="ios"        width="57" height="57" />
    <icon src="icon-72.png"            gap:platform="ios"        width="72" height="72" />
    <icon src="icon-57-2x.png"         gap:platform="ios"        width="114" height="114" />
    <icon src="icon-72-2x.png"         gap:platform="ios"        width="144" height="144" />
    <icon src="icon-120.png"           gap:platform="ios"        width="120" height="120" />
    <icon src="icon-76.png"            gap:platform="ios"        width="76" height="76" />
    <icon src="icon-76-2x.png"         gap:platform="ios"        width="152" height="152" />

    <gap:plugin name="com.phonegap.plugin.statusbar" />
    <gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.device" />
    <gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.dialogs" />
    <gap:plugin name="org.apache.cordova.camera" />
    <gap:splash src="SplashScreenImage.jpg" gap:platform="winphone" />
    <gap:splash src="splash.png" />
    <gap:splash src="screen-iphone-portrait.png"         gap:platform="ios"     width="320" height="480" />
    <gap:splash src="screen-iphone-portrait-2x.png"      gap:platform="ios"     width="640" height="960" />
    <gap:splash src="screen-iphone-portrait-568h-2x.png" gap:platform="ios"     width="640" height="1136" />
    <gap:splash src="screen-ipad-portrait.png"           gap:platform="ios"     width="768" height="1024" />
    <gap:splash src="screen-ipad-landscape.png"          gap:platform="ios"     width="1024" height="768" />

    <gap:config-file platform="ios" parent="CFBundleShortVersionString">
    <string>100</string>
    </gap:config-file>

    <feature name="App">
      <param name="android-package" value="org.apache.cordova.App"/>
    </feature>
    <feature name="http://api.phonegap.com/1.0/network"/>

    <!-- Deprecated plugins element. Remove in 3.0 -->


</widget>

Answer 1

The accepted answer from sunil is no longer relevant, the plugin is deprecated.

Use the following in your config.xml

<preference name="StatusBarOverlaysWebView" value="false" />
<preference name="StatusBarBackgroundColor" value="#000000" />
<preference name="StatusBarStyle" value="lightcontent" />
<plugin spec="https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-statusbar.git" source="git" />

Answer 2

Add these lines to your config.xml file

<preference name="StatusBarOverlaysWebView" value="false" />
        <preference name="StatusBarBackgroundColor" value="#000000" />
        <preference name="StatusBarStyle" value="lightcontent" />
      <gap:plugin name="com.phonegap.plugin.statusbar" />

Answer 3

This can be accomplished with the help of the statusbar plugin . All you need is to install the plugin via the command line phonegap plugin add https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-statusbar.git and then add StatusBar.hide(); onDeviceReady event.

Answer 4

If you want to hide the StatusBar totaly you can add two keys into your info.plist which are Booleans:

Status bar is initially hidden - YES

View controller-based status bar appearance - NO

Answer 5

For detail usage in codova 6+ now, for more of @sunil's solution, we should use

cordova plugins add -save cordova-plugin-statusbar

For detail usage: https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-statusbar

Answer 6

Applied @sunil resolution but,

My problem was of "Content Security Policy" on iOS 10

Added below line to index.html resolved the issue:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy" content="default-src 'self' gap://ready file://* *; style-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline'; script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' 'unsafe-eval'">

Answer 7

add these lines in config.xml use this it will fix your issue and status bar will appear:

<preference name="StatusBarOverlaysWebView" value="true"/>

<preference name="StatusBarBackgroundColor" value="#000000"/>

<preference name="StatusBarStyle" value="lightcontent" />