StatusBarOverlay
  • August 8, 2023

StatusBarOverlay will automatically show a “No Internet Connection” bar when your app loses connection, and hide it again. It supports apps which hide the status bar and The Notch

Features


  • Just a few lines of code and StatusBarOverlay will automatically show & hide when internet connection is lost & regained
  • Support for apps that hide the status bar permanently
  • Support for the iPhone X Notch
  • Optionally you can choose to show the status bar anytime with custom text, eg for Debug or Demo modes
  • Optionally you can show a drop down message, below the status bar, with a click handle, great for nonintrusive alerts
  • Fully customisable colors & text

How to install


Add this to your CocoaPods Podfile

pod ‘StatusBarOverlay’

How to use


In your Info.plist file set UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance = true

In your AppDelegate.didFinishLaunchingWithOptions() method set StatusBarOverlay.host to your server domain. StatusBarOverlay will use this to check connectivity

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplicationLaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

StatusBarOverlay.host = “example.com”

return true
}

If you use a common UIViewController subclass, add the following to it. All of view controllers show override these methods, so its best to use a common UIViewController subclass

import StatusBarOverlay // if StatusBarOverlay is in CocoaPod

extension CommonViewController {

override var preferredStatusBarStyle: UIStatusBarStyle {
return StatusBarOverlay.preferredStatusBarStyle
}

override var prefersStatusBarHidden: Bool {
return StatusBarOverlay.prefersStatusBarHidden
}

override var preferredStatusBarUpdateAnimation: UIStatusBarAnimation {
return StatusBarOverlay.preferredStatusBarUpdateAnimation
}
}

Thats it. Run your app, try turning on and off airplane mode and the No Internet Connection bar will show and hide. On the simulator sometimes the hiding event isnt fired. All devices work normally

Dependencies


  • Reachability is required for the connectivity events

Get these while stocks last 🙂

A Codable extension to decode arrays and to catch & log all decoding failures https://github.com/IdleHandsApps/SafeDecoder

An elegant solution for keeping views visible when the keyboard is being shown https://github.com/IdleHandsApps/IHKeyboardAvoiding

Button styles that are centralied and reusable, and hooked up to InterfaceBuilder https://github.com/IdleHandsApps/DesignableButton

GitHub


View Github

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE...
ViewCondition

✨ Super sweet syntactic sugar for SwiftUI.View initializers. At a Glance

SwiftUIX

SwiftUIX attempts to fill the gaps of SwiftUI, providing an extensive suite of components, extensions and utilities to complement the ...

SwiftUI Environment Overrides

A tiny library that adds a control panel for testing how SwiftUI app adapts for different color themes, accessibility settings, ...