Status bar turns white and does not show content behind it

Question

I am trying out AppCompat on Marshmallow. And I want to have a transparent status bar however it turns white. I\'ve tried a couple solutions but they didn\'t work for me (Tr

Answer 1

My guess is that this is caused by your android:windowBackground. Is @color/background_material_light a reference to white?

Answer 2

I faced the same issue. What i did was, in the "v21/styles.xml" file a changed the value true:

 <item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>

to:

 <item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">false</item>

Answer 3

Just put this item in your v21\styles.xml :

true

It should look like this :

<style name="AppTheme.NoActionBar">
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowDrawsSystemBarBackgrounds">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
</style>

Answer 4

If you are using RelativeLayout / CoordinatorLayout this is the solution that worked for me:

You have to use

• CoordinatorLayout
• AppBarLayout

Rember to use CoordinatorLayout instead of RelativeLayout (the performance is better and perfectly works with AppBarLayout)

This is how your fragment should starts

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="@android:color/background_light"
android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
>

<android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:id="@+id/main.appbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="300dp"
    android:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"
    >
    ...

Good coding!

Answer 5

For styles v23

 <style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowLightStatusBar">true</item>
    <item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

For styles v21

<style name="MyTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.NoActionBar">
    <item name="android:windowTranslucentStatus">true</item>
    <item name="android:statusBarColor">@android:color/white</item>
</style>

Answer 6

    Window window = this.getWindow();
    window.setStatusBarColor(this.getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimaryDark));

Add this 2 line in java file below