How to remove the shadow above the app bar?

Question

I\'d like to make the status bar transparent by adding @android:color/transparent to v21/styles.xml on

Answer 1

I believe this question is pointing to same problem Android appbarlayout elevation appears in status bar

Possible solutions:

Your root layout should have android:fitsSystemWindows="true" at all times, otherwise your UI will not draw behind status bar.

Now wrap the AppBarLayout inside another CoordinatorLayout which has

android:fitsSystemWindows="false".

This will prevent the shadow from overflowing into statusbar.