Hi everyone, in this video we're going to look at... how to add these status icons up the top here... Battery, Wi-Fi, Network, we'll add the time along the top here as well... we'll look at how to deal with this notch that's on some phones... and although this video is 10 minutes long the quick answer is... just go and steal it from the Figma community...

in this case I stole a sweet one from Wayne Dahlberg and I pasted it in. Why is this video 10 minutes long? I'll show you how to steal it good... and by stealing I mean appropriating... because that's what's amazing about the old Figma community... all right, let's jump in.

So let's do it, let's go and appropriate somebody else's status bar... trick is, community is the best place to find something like this... so go to the Figma community, and in the Search... what you're looking for is to put in... whatever the latest iOS or Android version is... in this case, Material, or whatever device you're looking for...

try and pick that, because you want to look like... the new one that everyone's using. So, there you go, Status bar is the other word that you want... and for me I want to go, not FigJam and Figma, just Figma... and then you go through, and what I tend to do, is I'm looking through here... and this one might be great, but it's got 0 likes, and only 8 downloads...

I'm looking for something that has a lot more, this one here has loads... has 525 likes and has lots of downloads, and I've already checked it... so I know it's good. So you open it up, you're going to open it in Figma... and basically that means you taking a copy of it... and then we're going to go steal bits from it...

so that's our cover, we're going to use 'PgDn' to get used to the shortcut... to go to this other page that he's created, who's he? we saw, it was Wayne somebody... go back here, there you go, oh, it's Dahlberg, there you go, Wayne Dahlberg... thank you very much for making this, because it is awesome... and basically what you're looking for, is let's go through his assets...

so 'Option 2', or 'Alt 2', let's have a look, there's only two of them... there's lots of stuff that's embedded in it, fine... but what we want to do is go, I want this, Status bar... let's drag out a copy... actually, what I want to do is, actually, grab the main component. So we don't have to kind of keep jumping back and forth into here...

to maybe do changes, not that I plan to. 'Command 2', or 'Ctrl 2' to jump back to that tab... and what I need to do is just paste it in... paste it here in my main components one, it should be on its own page by now... but it's starting to get a bit unwieldy... that's right, wait there for the moment...

so I should have in my Assets, I'm going to type in "stat"... to kind of cull down my assets, there it is. So what I want to do now is add it to this top here... I could add it to each individual, but we know that that's a bad idea... we want to add it to the... main component, which we can find by right clicking, and saying...

go to main component, here it is, there... now we're going to add it in... did it go in? Maybe... oh mine ended up backwards... oh, that was a neat trick, how did I do that?

I don't know... let's start it again... I know that sometimes I do things like... like flip horizontal, I do that all the time... 'Command P', let's go horizontal, is that what I did? I'm not sure.

So we've got it in here, let's look at my layers, 'Option 1', or 'Alt 1'... and it has ended up in my main component, so it's going to appear on everything... other than that we've got to push the logo down, that's all we do... let's look at our prototype over here... needs to be kind of smooshed over there a little bit... there you go, it's got a Status bar.

Now I know we've got to do some laying up, but that's it, really... if you're like, "How do you do it?"... you go steal it, borrow it, appropriate it, it's better words... but Wayne's made this for us to kind of save time, which is cool. So you can go ahead to the next video now... I want to dive in and have a look at this component...

just because it's pretty interesting, what's been made... and we'll look at the notch. So what I'm going to have to do now is... I'm going to have to go through, make sure, working on my main component... give myself enough room... I'm going to turn on my grid...

to make sure it's kind of, yeah, I'm kind of sticking to my grid pattern... I'm going to grab my logo... and I'm going to drag it down... going to get rid of my grid because it's hard to see... oh, I need to show something over here, that's previewing... so I'm going to use my left and right...

that one looks better... just want to find one where I'm kind of like laying it out... everything's not overlapping... and that looks like it's going to be a good distance from the notch. Now you can preview the notch here, that's coming from Figma... when we are doing our prototype...

the notch is coming from the phone that we've picked... and they're all different, 13... like an 8 doesn't have a notch... so that notch is coming from there, you can use that to kind of preview it... or you can turn it on in this particular Status bar... because Wayne is awesome, he went -  let's go back to Design mode.

- and created a variable for dark mode... he also went in, and in this Status here, can you see... there's a notch, if I click on it... there's a notch, that's visible... it's not the right size of the notches that I need, bad way... but you might just want to see it here so that you can kind of...

design around, or at least know, like how far the logo feels from this notch here... I don't want it on, I'm happy to just see it over here... cool, let's dig in as well, we got time. This one here has a variable of... let's go green, you see the little ticker that goes around it, go back to 'Clear'... also, in here there is...

indicators for like, is the microphone on, is the camera on... let's have a look into the Status bar, this little part here... and in here there is, remember, you can drag this in and out... there is a digital network, so let's have a look at the network one... 3 bars, nope, where I live there's only ever 1, rural Ireland... the Wi-Fi signal, you can obviously turn up and down as well...

it's pretty well built component, don't we think? It's the kind of thing that you would put the effort into it, potentially... when you are making stuff... let's look at the battery... for me, I live life on the, always be charging my phone, life... my wife on the other hand likes to only charge her phone when it dies...

that's how she does it, and then once it starts back up... she goes from status normal to charging... I'm a paranoid charger, how about you? Anytime I get, get a little bit charge... let me know in the comments, are you a paranoid charger like me... or you are, let it run till it dies, and then charge it, person.

That is using somebody else's community project to put in our Status bar... that's what you do for a lot of... kind of system UI bits and pieces... we'll do one more in a video next... but for the Status bar go find somebody else that's made it... or if you're a crazy person you can build it yourself...

but also, my opinion is... does it add to the, you know, the demonstration? Maybe for, like final portfolio looking pieces... but for actual testing it doesn't help... I don't find it, like there be no difference between... having the status bar up there, and not having it there...

when I'm getting people to do some user testing... so leave it up to you whether you want to play the game of like... leaving space along the top here in all our designs... for that status bar, and the notch... all right, that's it, I will see you in the next video.