With iOS7 the status bar no longer hides when told to, the fix is described here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18059703/cannot-hide-status-bar-in-ios7 and means setting UIViewControllerBasedStatusBarAppearance to true in the info plist file.
Merge pull request #13 from Scraft/nextgen_ios7_status_bar_fix

With iOS7 the status bar no longer hides when told to, the fix is descri...