Documentation of StatusBar doesn't mention backgroundColor not supported on iOS

[chetstone]

The code examples in Different Status Bar configuration based on the route set the backgroundColor and don't have any platform-specific references. And the example GIFS show the background color changing on an iOS device with a notch. But according to react-native docs background color doesn't work on iOS (and it didn't when I tried the given example code).

But how were those GIFS generated? There must be a way to do it. At the bottom of the page it says:

The code used for these demos is available as a Snack.

But the snack at that link is obviously not the same code that generated the GIF.

Please correct that link so we can see the actual code that was used to change the background color on iOS.

[brentvatne]

the code used to change the background color is right there, it's the safeareaview that fills up the entire screen.

But the snack at that link is obviously not the same code that generated the GIF.

it looks like the snack was incorrect, i updated it so you can see it live there now

[chetstone]

Thanks for the reply and updating the snack. I noticed in my code that once I set a background color for my navbar the status bar automatically got the same color. Cool. I didn't know that was a feature of SafeAreaView. Perhaps this could be explained in the doc.

[brentvatne]

SafeAreaView just adds padding to a View, so any background color will apply to the entire view

[chetstone]

Brent, I see you just beefed up the documentation on SafeAreaView. Thanks. I just want to say I really appreciate the excellent documentation of this component. When I started on my app a few years ago I used react-native-router-flux. I got it to work but always felt I was groping in the dark. Switching now to react-navigation the sun is shining.

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[brentvatne]

thanks @chetstone, that's great to hear! :)