Android M Light and Dark status bar programmatically - how to make it dark again?

Question

In the Android M we have ability to make status bar icons dark. To do that we can specify attribute in the theme\'s xml:

Answer 1

There is a slight change in API 30 of the SDK and now the light status bar appearance is controlled by WindowInsetsController, which can be obtained from a Window. Below is a sample method (within an Activity) in Kotlin, combining the new API with the previously used View.setSystemUiVisibility for older Android SDK versions. Bear in mind that this only changes the system icons appearance of the status bar and the actual color of the status bar can still be set by Window.setStatusBarColor.

@Suppress("DEPRECATION")
private fun setSystemUiLightStatusBar(isLightStatusBar: Boolean) {
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.R) {
            val systemUiAppearance = if (isLightStatusBar) {
                WindowInsetsController.APPEARANCE_LIGHT_STATUS_BARS
            } else {
                0
            }
            window.insetsController?.setSystemBarsAppearance(systemUiAppearance,
                                                             WindowInsetsController.APPEARANCE_LIGHT_STATUS_BARS)
        } else {
            val systemUiVisibilityFlags = if (isLightStatusBar) {
                window.decorView.systemUiVisibility or SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR
            } else {
                window.decorView.systemUiVisibility and SYSTEM_UI_FLAG_LIGHT_STATUS_BAR.inv()
            }
            window.decorView.systemUiVisibility = systemUiVisibilityFlags
        }
    }
}