Android statusbar overlay with ActionBar

Question

I know that I can make the ActionBar overlay using requestFeature(Window.FEATURE_ACTION_BAR_OVERLAY)
and can toggle/show the status bar in my screen (by switch

Answer 1

so apparently, you can do this in Jellybean. google includes two examples in the api docs. here is a link: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.html#setSystemUiVisibility%28int%29

summary: use setSystemUiVisibility on a view to toggle visibility (on jellybean+).