Question

Does Apple not allow developers to add an icon into a status bar?

I followed code from a book. The code is simple:

@interface UIApplication (extended) 
- (void) addStatusBarImageNamed:(NSString *)aName; 
- (void) removeStatusBarImageNamed:(NSString *)aName; 

@end 

- (void)performAction{
    if (xxx) {
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication]addStatusBarImageNamed:@"Default_EN.png"];
    }
    else {
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication]addStatusBarImageNamed:@"Default_EC.png"];

    }
}

But it gives the following feedback :

-addStatusBarImageNamed: is deprecated. Doing nothing.

What can I do?

Answer 1

In Classes/YourViewController.m, the addStatusBarImageNamed:removeOnExit: method needs to be overwritten with this.

- (void) addStatusBarImageNamed:(NSString*)image removeOnExit: (BOOL) remove {
if(_statusbarimage!=nil && _responds) {
if ([[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"statusBarEnabled"] integerValue] == 1)
[self removeStatusBarImageNamed:_statusbarimage];
statusbarimage=image;
}
if (_responds) {
if ([[[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"statusBarEnabled"] integerValue] == 1)
[super addStatusBarImageNamed:image removeOnExit: remove];
}
}  

See if it works fine.