How to change the status bar color in Android?

Question

First of all it\'s not a duplicate as in How to change the background color of android status bar

How do I change the status bar color which should be same as in nav

Answer 1

Well, Izhar solution was OK but, personally, I am trying to avoid from code that looks as this:

 if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
//Do what you need for this SDK
};

As well, I don't like to duplicate code either. In your answer I have to add such line of code in all Activities:

setStatusBarColor(findViewById(R.id.statusBarBackground),getResources().getColor(android.R.color.white));

So, I took Izhar solution and used XML to get the same result: Create a layout for the StatusBar status_bar.xml

Notice the height and elevation attributes, these will be set in values, values-v19, values-v21 further down.

Add this layout to your activities layout using include, main_activity.xml:

//The rest of your layout       

For the Toolbar, add top margin attribute:

In your appTheme style-v19.xml and styles-v21.xml, add the windowTranslucent attr:

styles-v19.xml, v21:

true

And finally, on your dimens, dimens-v19, dimens-v21, add the values for the Toolbar topMargin, and the height of the statusBarHeight: dimens.xml for less than KitKat:

4dp
0dp
0dp

The status bar height is always 24dp dimens-v19.xml for KitKat and above:

24dp
24dp

dimens-v21.xml for Lolipop, just add the elevation if needed:

4dp

This is the result for Jellybean KitKat and Lollipop: