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

Call below method in the onCreate of your activity with the desired status bar color.

public void changeStatusBarColor(String hexColor)
  {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.LOLLIPOP) {
        Window window = getWindow();
        window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
        window.setStatusBarColor(Color.parseColor("#AD2525"));
    }
 }

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