creators of native ios apps do have the ability to force the statusbar
to behave in the 'old' way (opaque and not overlaying the app) and i'm
sure i've read somewhere that adobe are working on a fix for this in the
air player.... so an sdk change may not be necessary.
perhaps alex could confirm (or refute) this?
On 03/11/2013 20:13, Maurice Amsellem wrote:
Hi Team,
iOS7 manages the status bar differently than iOS 6.1: application is
displayed in full screen and the status bar is displayed on top of the app,
either in black or white font color (depending on some setting).
Current flex apps running on iOS7 will have the status bar partly covering the
top navigation bar buttons and text.
The usual workaround is to increase ActionBar paddingTop to remove the overlap.
(see : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLEX-33860)
I would like to discuss the different approaches for a permanent fix of this
issue in the Flex SDK.
There are two points to discuss: how to provide room for the status bar, and
how to determine/control when to do it:
Point #1: how to provide room for the status Bar:
Option 1) increase the top ActionBar paddingTop, to leave space for the status
bar.
Note that the top padding must be applied to the top ActionBar only, not to the
other ActionBars.
This is easy for ViewNavigatorApplication, but not obvious when the
ActionBar(s) are added indirectly, for example through SplitViewNavigator.
This could be done eg. by testing the ActionBar stage y, and add the padding if
< 10
Option 2) modify the various mobile ApplicationSkin classes (ApplicaitonSkin,
TabbedViewNavigatorApplicationSkin, ViewNavigatorApplicationSkin) to leave 20
px space for the status bar.
This space could be filled with application background color, instead of being
black.
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Point #2: How to determine when to add the top padding:
Option 1)
- Dynamically determine that application is running on iOS7 (based on
Capabilities.version and Capabilities.os)
- Size the padding top accordingly ( set if IOS7, not set if not IOS7)
⇨ Simple, but not flexible.
Option 2)
- Introduce a new numerical os-version @media selector
Eg.
@media (application-dpi: 160) AND (os-platform:"IOS") AND (os-version >= 7) {
statusBarHeight: 20;
}
Pros: opens up new possilibilities, for example to provide iOS7 specific skins.
Cons: much more difficult to implement.
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What do you think ?
Maurice
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Lee Burrows
ActionScripter
