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+# mobile-status-bar
+
+This package provides some customizability to the status bar on Meteor
+Phonegap/Cordova apps on mobile.
+
+Right now it just exposes the standard `org.apache.cordova.statusbar` plugin for
+Phonegap/Cordova with some defaults. For the extensive documentation see the
+original [plugin
+repo](https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-statusbar/blob/master/doc/index.md).
+