I am getting a red border and status bar when there is no internet connection

The red bar only shows up in Development devices. It will never show up in the Production versions of your apps.

If you shake the device, a Taplytics menu should pop up and you should be able to disable the border for that session. 

If you're getting the red border despite having an internet connection, there may have been an error in the socket connection which would require a hard reset.