Change status bar color with AppCompat ActionBarActivity

Question

In one of my Activities, I changed the Toolbar color using Palette. But on 5.0 devices using ActionBarActivity the status bar color i

Answer 1

Thanks for above answers, with the help of those, after certain R&D for xamarin.android MVVMCross application, below worked

Flag specified for activity in method OnCreate

protected override void OnCreate(Bundle bundle)
    {
        base.OnCreate(bundle);
        this.Window.AddFlags(WindowManagerFlags.DrawsSystemBarBackgrounds);
    }

For each MvxActivity, Theme is mentioned as below

 [Activity(
    LaunchMode = LaunchMode.SingleTop,
    ScreenOrientation = ScreenOrientation.Portrait,
    Theme = "@style/Theme.Splash",
    Name = "MyView"
    )]

My SplashStyle.xml looks like as below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources> 
    <style name="Theme.Splash" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
          <item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/app_red</item>
          <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">@color/app_red</item>
    </style>
 </resources>

And I have V7 appcompact referred.