How to make Android status bar light in Flutter

Question

As the title suggests, this is about Flutter.

Is there any way to switch Android status bar to light mode so that the icons in status bar show up dark? See picture f

Answer 1

The Flutter team have now added support for light/dark status bar control. To add, import this:

import 'package:flutter/services.dart';

Then add this in your App's build function:

SystemChrome.setSystemUIOverlayStyle(SystemUiOverlayStyle.dark.copyWith(
  statusBarIconBrightness: Brightness.dark
));