twotoasters/TWTSideMenuViewController — pull request #12 by danielrhammond (2013-11-29 21:48:25+00:00)
Title: Use childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle/childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden

I think this is what Apple seems to intend you to do when you're creating container view controllers rather than calling preferredStatusBarStyle directly on a child view controller.

It gives you a lot more flexibility allows you to either define the -preferredStatusBarStyle in the main/menu controllers and it will work as before or have them just return another childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle (ie. my main view controller is a navigation controller and I want to either return light or dark depending on the top view controller)