Hide StatusBar from MPMoviePlayerController

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I've been struggling with a very annoying problem all day long and I hope I could find help on this board.

I'm using an MPMoviePlayerController to play a fullscreen movie on iPad and I can't figure how to remove the status bar which is always displayed despite all my efforts to make it go to hell.

Here is the code of the method I use to display the movie : 

-(void)launchVideoFromButton:(id)sender{

         NSString *videoPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"movie01" ofType:@"m4v"];
         NSURL *videoPathURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:videoPath];
         moviePlayer = [[MPMoviePlayerController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoPathURL];

         [self.view addSubview:moviePlayer.view];

         moviePlayer.shouldAutoplay = YES;
         moviePlayer.movieSourceType = MPMovieSourceTypeFile;


         [moviePlayer setFullscreen:YES animated:YES];
         moviePlayer.controlStyle = MPMovieControlStyleFullscreen;

         NSNotificationCenter *notificationCenter = [NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
         [notificationCenter addObserver:self selector:@selector(moviePlayerEvent:) name:MPMoviePlayerLoadStateDidChangeNotification object:moviePlayer];

    }



    -(void)moviePlayerEvent:(NSNotification*)aNotification{

         [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:NO];
         NSLog(@"%i", [UIApplication sharedApplication].statusBarHidden);

    }

In the console, I can see that moviePlayerEvent is fired when the movie appears but the statusbar is still there : [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES withAnimation:NO] seems to be inoperant. I've been trying to use the other MPMoviePlayerController notifications with no luck.

Could anyone help me on that one?

Thanks in advance.

mpmovieplayercontroller ipad statusbar iphone
9 Answers

The status bar did hided, but showing up again with the play control.

  -(void)viewDidLoad:{
        [super viewDidLoad];
        MPMoviePlayerViewController *moviePlayerViewController =
                [[MPMoviePlayerViewController alloc] initWithContentURL:videoURL];

        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self 
                 selector:@selector(playbackStateChange:)
                 name:MPMoviePlayerLoadStateDidChangeNotification
                 object:moviePlayerViewController.moviePlayer];
    }
    -(void)playbackStateChange:(NSNotification*)notification{
        if([[UIApplication sharedApplication]respondsToSelector:@selector(setStatusBarHidden: withAnimation:)])
        [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES 
                       withAnimation:UIStatusBarAnimationNone];
        else 
            [[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarHidden:YES animated:NO];
}
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