colored status bar

statusbar_snippet.swift

// let's create our status bar background view
let statusBar = UIView()

// set the navigation bar color to white (assuming `navController` is our `UINavigationController`)
navController.navigationBar.barTintColor = UIColor.whiteColor()

// turn off the autoresizing mask, since we're using autolayout
statusBarBg.setTranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints(false)

// set a background color for the status bar
statusBar.backgroundColor = UIColor.blueColor()

// add our view to the nav controller view
navController.view.addSubview(statusBar)

// use autolayout to position the status bar
let views = ["statusBar": statusBar]
let hLayout = NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("H:|[statusBar]|", options: .allZeros, metrics: nil, views: views)
let vLayout = NSLayoutConstraint.constraintsWithVisualFormat("V:|[statusBar(==20)]", options: .allZeros, metrics: nil, views: views)
navController.view.addConstraints(hLayout)
navController.view.addConstraints(vLayout)