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

I had this requirement: Changing programmatically the status bar color keeping it transparent, to allow the Navigation Drawer to draw itself overlapping the trasparent status bar.

I cannot do that using the API

getWindow().setStatusBarColor(ContextCompat.getColor(activity ,R.color.my_statusbar_color)

If you check here in stack overflow everyone before that line of code set the transparency of the status bar to solid with

getWindow().clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS)

I'm able to manage color and transparency of status bar like this:

• Android 4: there's not much you can do, because you can't manage status bar color from the API ... the only thing you can do is to set the status bar as translucent and move a colored element of you UI under the status bar. To do this you need to play with

  android:fitsSystemWindows="false"
  

  in your main layout. This allows you to draw you layout under the status bar. Then you need to play with some padding with the top of your main layout.

• Android 5 and above: you have to define a style with

  true
  @android:color/transparent
  

  this allows the navigation drawer to overlap the status bar.

  Then to change the color keeping the status bar transparent you have to set the status bar color with

  drawerLayout.setStatusBarBackgroundColor(ContextCompat.getColor(activity, R.color.my_statusbar_color))
  

  where drawerLayout is defined like this