Removal of "Hide status bar" in r470 beta

Hi, just noticed this in the notes for r470 beta:

One notable other change is that when exporting to Android or iOS, the Hide status bar option has been removed. That's not because support for this has been removed - it's just it is now controlled by the Viewport fit project property. If you want to hide the status bar, make sure that option is set to Cover, and it will work the same as checking Hide status bar - and also be more consistent with web exports.

What happens if I want to hide the status bar but don't want the viewport to cover non-visible areas of the screen?

I don't really want to have to detect specific devices and rebuild my layouts to accommodate those that don't have unobstructed rectangular screens.

If this changes makes it into production, I understand it might be possible to manually edit the Xcode project to hide the status bar - but at present I can't test this as it looks like iOS export to an Xcode project is broken - the project's name is just App.xcodeproj rather than <gameName>.xcodeproj and when I try to build, I see loads of errors starting with:

Cannot find declaration for 'NSObject', superclass of 'FIleUtility'

Which means nothing to me!

Thanks!

What happens if I want to hide the status bar but don't want the viewport to cover non-visible areas of the screen?

Checking 'Hide status bar' exported exactly the same thing as setting the project 'Viewport fit' to 'Cover'. There is no functional difference and so the 'Hide status bar' setting was redundant, hence its removal. There should not be any need to handle anything differently in your project because of this change.

the project's name is just App.xcodeproj rather than <gameName>.xcodeproj

That's an intentional change in Cordova iOS 8.0.0.

I'm not sure if that other error you mentioned is related to that - it looks like something has a typo (presumably FIleUtility should be FileUtility), but it's not clear that's relevant. It might be an issue with a third-party addon. If you're not using any third-party addons and you get a build error, please file an issue.

Checking 'Hide status bar' exported exactly the same thing as setting the project 'Viewport fit' to 'Cover'.

I've just tried this and found that viewport fit and hide status bar options are independent and do exactly what they say.

Specifically (viewport fit / hide status bar):

auto/true

This works for me - no status bar and the layout isn't under the rounded corners or dynamic island on an iPhone 15.

auto/false

No good - status bar appears on an iPad 10 (but for some reason not on an iPhone 15)

cover/true

No good - layout is underneath an iPhone 15's rounded corners and dynamic island

cover/false

Doubly no good - layout is underneath an iPhone 15's rounded corners and dynamic island & status bar is visible on iPad 10

Maybe there's something weird with my project - I'll try with a minimal one - and will also try to replicate the build error with the beta...