I have been around the net looking at many posts on this topic related to navigation pages and setting BarTextColor equal to white for iOS. I have read the theories that a color has to have some blue in it for the text to turn white in the status bar and thus I have a darker color in my BarBackgroundColor. I have tried the info.plist setting to use light colors with no luck and have even altered info.plist with View controller-based status bar appearance: No and even these
<key>UIStatusBarStyle</key>
<string>UIStatusBarStyleLightContent</string>
<key>UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance</key>
<false/>
Again no luck what so ever. My MainPage.xaml sorry for not using a link but the forum is blocking me for some ridiculous reason.
gist github com napalm684 ff29a40c007d67bdcd872586248530c4
MyHomePage is just an empty stacklayout. Is it not possible with Xamarin.Forms to get a white text status bar in this particular scenario for my navigation needs? Surely there is a way to avoid changing to a light color for my navigation bar so the status text can be seen. Custom render-er necessary maybe? I am a Xamarin.Forms newbie so I appreciate the help.