Change status bar text color when primaryDark is white

Question

I am trying to reproduce the behaviour of Google Calendar application:

but I have not found a way to change the status text color. If i set the colorPrimaryDark as whit

Answer 1

I'm not sure what API level your trying to target, but if you can use API 23 specific stuff, you can add the following to your AppTheme styles.xml:

@color/colorPrimaryDark
true

when android:windowLightStatusBar is set to true, status bar text color will be able to be seen when the status bar color is white, and vice-versa when android:windowLightStatusBar is set to false, status bar text color will be designed to be seen when the status bar color is dark.

Example: