Translucent StatusBar with dynamic ActionBar color in Android

Question

I\'m trying to realize a translucent statusbar (so that my navigation-view is BEHIND the statusbar) but still like to change the color of my actionbar dynam

Answer 1

Actually, it's fairly easy to implement.

First step - is to change height of the Toolbar:

• change height to wrap_content

so for me it looks like this:

Then you override resources for v19:

Then, in the Activity, setting padding for the Toolbar:

    Toolbar toolbar = (Toolbar) findViewById(R.id.toolbar);
    setSupportActionBar(toolbar);
    toolbar.setPadding(0, getStatusBarHeight(), 0, 0);
    ......
    ......
    public int getStatusBarHeight() {
        int result = 0;

        if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
            int resourceId = getResources().getIdentifier("status_bar_height", "dimen", "android");
            if (resourceId > 0) {
                result = getResources().getDimensionPixelSize(resourceId);
            }
        }
        return result;
    }

And actually, it's pretty much it. Now once I want to change colour of the Toolbar, I'm calling this:

    if (getSupportActionBar() != null) {
        getSupportActionBar().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.GREEN));
    }

The activity's layout:

NB! On pre-Kitkat OS-versions, status bar remained the same, non-translucent.

I've uploaded the source code of the test-application to my dropbox - feel free to check it out.

I hope, it helps