Status bar

[desigonz]

Status bar at top of screen (where time, battery life, etc is): shows up blank when opening Artbot from home screen icon. Can we add the time and battery life in?

[SherriAlexander]

I believe that this should now be fixed for iOS 8.0 and 8.1 -- it's a nasty one to troubleshoot because of caching issues. I had to delete and reinstall my homescreen app several times (and clear my mobile Safari browser cache) to get the changes to "take" properly on my iOS devices.

I'd be very interested to see if the fix works on iOS 7 as well -- I do not currently have any iOS 7 devices to test with, as mine all updated to iOS 8 automatically. If this fix doesn't seem to be doing the trick, or if there is extra space that appears at the top above the header bar, then I'll need to put some additional user agent sniffing in place.

Thanks!

[desigonz]

The status bar appears on iOS 7 as well, although the background is transparent—and therefore when you scroll, the event image shows up in the bar. See screenshot.

[heymarkreeves]

Dropping my screenshot here, too. I'm on iOS7, with a 5c (taller screen).

[heymarkreeves]

@desigonz If I clear my browser data for Safari (Settings -> Safari -> Clear History, Clear Cookies and Data) and do Add to Home Screen again from scratch, this issue goes away. Can you try that?

Thanks!

[heymarkreeves]

@desigonz - Hold off on that retest - The gap's been eliminated on my screen, but I'm still seeing stuff peek behind the bar. Looks like we need to target iOS7 specifically. We'll update here once we've tracked it down. Thanks!

[SherriAlexander]

The status bar should now have a translucent black background (not completely transparent!), so the experience matches up in iOS7 and iOS8. You can see the content of the page scroll underneath it to a more limited extent, by design.

Let me know what you think when you can -- thanks!

[desigonz]

Thanks for this fix! We'd prefer for the status bar background to be completely opaque.

[heymarkreeves]

Hi, Desi!

We'd prefer for the status bar background to be completely opaque.

That was attempted and doesn't seem possible with the options available. There's a limited palette of color options for enabling the status bar, and there are conflicts in how iOS7 & iOS8 handles them. (And Apple would prefer to see everyone just move to iOS8, which is now around 58% adoption.) What we found was anything other than "black-translucent" as the color option for the status bar effectively rendered black-on-black text.

This will be the best we can do in Homescreen mode on this one.

Thanks!

Mark

[desigonz]

Okay, that sounds fine. Just to make sure I understand—in iOS 8, the status bar appears as opaque black with white text, but that this is not possible for previous versions?

[SherriAlexander]

Hey there, all! Sorry about the confusion -- the status bar appears roughly the same now across iOS7 and iOS8 (about 80% translucent black with white text). I did extensive testing across iOS 7, iOS 8.0, and iOS 8.1 with the various status bar possibilities, and this was the only one that reliably worked across them all. Thanks!

[desigonz]

Okay, thanks for letting us know—sounds good.

[SherriAlexander]

I had to revisit this anyway, as I noticed that my fix for iOS8 wasn't sticking for some reason. Since I had to customize it for both iOS 7 and iOS 8, I went ahead and made it solid opaque black for all 3. I have to agree with you, I think it looks better this way. :) Let me know if you have any questions -- thanks!

[desigonz]

Looks great, thanks!