apache/cordova-plugins — pull request #5 by kant2002 (2014-02-25 08:34:27+00:00)
Title: Created statusbar version of plugin for Android

The rationale for this push is to add support for programmatic hide/show of status bar from JavaScript on Android platform.

I have following use case for this functionality. My applicaiton is game which have some screens which work in Portrait, but actual game is in the landscape. This game not require real-time actions from players, but information intensive, so when players play in landscape mode, even such small space on the screen reduce clutter and valuable for our users.

Besides that, if I understand correctly, Android 4.4 supports changing of colors in the status bar, so other functionality could catch-up with iOS, for that functionality at least.