✎ How the adaptive status bar in iOS6 determines which color to use
maxrudberg:
Wrapp iOS developer Simon Blommegård has been experimenting further with the new adaptive status bar and how it determines which color to use from the header bar. Turns out it’s quite a funky method. Rather than going on the tintColor, It uses the average color from the bottom pixel row of the header bar. This is illustrated by Simon’s yellow header bar with a blue and red bottom pixel row, resulting in a purple status bar:
