Android Completely transparent Status Bar?

Question

I\'ve searched the documentation but only found this: Link. Which is used to make the bar translucent? What I\'m trying to do is to make t

Answer 1

I found fiddling with styles.xml and activity to be too cumbersome hence created a common utility method which has below options set

Java

Window window = getWindow();
window.clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS);
window.addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS);
window.getDecorView().setSystemUiVisibility(View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN);
window.setStatusBarColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

Kotlin DSL

activity.window.apply {
    clearFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_TRANSLUCENT_STATUS)
    addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DRAWS_SYSTEM_BAR_BACKGROUNDS)
    decorView.systemUiVisibility = View.SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LAYOUT_FULLSCREEN
    statusBarColor = Color.TRANSPARENT
}

And that's all it took to achieve transparent status bar. Hope this helps.