Is there a way to change the Android status bar color with React Native?

Question

I just got started with React Native for Android, and I\'m trying to figure out if there\'s a way to change the status bar color for Android...

Like this?

Answer 1

Yes you can:

import {StatusBar} from 'react-native';

componentDidMount() {
  StatusBar.setBarStyle( 'light-content',true)
  StatusBar.setBackgroundColor("#0996AE")
}