Flutter How to hide status bar in Android and Ios

Published May 08, 2021

In this flutter example we will cover how to hide status bar in flutter application for both android and ios devices. In Any devices status bar window will display information about time, WiFi, USB connection, battery level.

Flutter hide status bar in android and ios device

Let's check example to hide status bar in flutter application.

Step 1: Create a flutter application

Step 2: To hide status bar we need to import flutter service package

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

Step 3: Write the code to hide status bar, we will use the below code

WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
SystemChrome.setEnabledSystemUIOverlays([
  SystemUiOverlay.bottom, //This line is used for showing the bottom bar
]);

To hide the status bar for entire application we need to write above code inside main() function before runApp() method

If we want to hide the status for for individual screens then we need to put the above code inside initState() method.

@override
void initState() {
  super.initState();
  SystemChrome.setEnabledSystemUIOverlays(
      [
        SystemUiOverlay.bottom, //This line is used for showing the bottom bar
      ]
  );
}

Complete Example code

import 'package:flutter/material.dart';
import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

void main() {
  WidgetsFlutterBinding.ensureInitialized();
  SystemChrome.setEnabledSystemUIOverlays([
    SystemUiOverlay.bottom, //This line is used for showing the bottom bar
  ]);
  runApp(
      MaterialApp(
        title: 'Hide Status Bar',
        theme: ThemeData(


        ),
        home: MyApp(),
      ));
}

class MyApp extends StatefulWidget {
  // This widget is the root of your application.


  @override
  State<StatefulWidget> createState() {
    return Home();
  }
}
class Home extends State{

  @override
  void initState() {
    super.initState();
    SystemChrome.setEnabledSystemUIOverlays(
        [
          SystemUiOverlay.bottom, //This line is used for showing the bottom bar
        ]
    );
  }
  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {


    return Scaffold(
      backgroundColor: Colors.blue,
      appBar: AppBar(
          elevation: 0,
          brightness: Brightness.dark,

          //Brightness.light = Dark icon
          //Brghtness.dark = Light icon

          backgroundColor: Colors.red,
          title:Text("Hide Statusbar")
        //if you want to set title

      ),

      body: Container(
          alignment: Alignment.center,
          height: MediaQuery.of(context).size.height,
          //making container height equal to verticle hight.
          width:MediaQuery.of(context).size.width,
          //making container width equal to verticle width.
          child:Text("Hide Statusbar !", style: TextStyle(
              fontSize: 30,
              color: Colors.white
          ),)
      ),
    );
  }

}

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Conclusion: In this flutter tutorial we covered how to hide status bar in flutter application on both android and ios devices.

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